Stalin's boots

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana (16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain – 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy) was a philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist.

Stalin's boots are all that remains of his statue after the 1956 uprising in Hungary.  His statue was cut off at the top of the boots and the statue destroyed. Following the fall of communism in the late 1980's / early 1990's, all the communist statues were taken down, and a few have resurfaced in Memorial Park in Buda.  The city of Budapest has no memory of communism and the current leaders have excessive political power.  The official memorial to the Holocaust is accompanied by an informal protest one reminding visitors that the Hungarians were also at fault.  

Just in case readers think that altering history is confined to Europeans, at the time of writing Charlottesville in Virginia USA has been in upheaval following the liberals desire to sanitise history by removing a statue of Robert E Lee, a competent civil war general, to ensure that the liberal city of Charlottesville is completely politically correct.  This madness has caused deaths and legitimised the right wing.  
From Spiked, August 18, 2017.  “It’s time to put the events of Charlottesville into perspective. Yes, the neo-Nazi protesters were a nasty bunch. The car attack on counter-protesters, which killed a young woman, was an outrageous assault on life and liberty. But this was not the second coming of the Third Reich. The media’s transformation of this gathering of tragic white nationalists into the return of the brownshirts, which we must all organise against and call on world leaders to denounce, has been hysterically over-the-top. It is driven not by a serious desire to understand politics today, but by certain constituencies’ need for an enemy to define themselves against. The exaggeration of the hard-right threat is directly proportionate to the flagging fortunes of the left, which spies in these overweight Mein Kampf fans an opportunity to posture and rail against something Bad. That might make them feel good, but it will do nothing to address today’s real political problems, and it could even make them worse.”

New Orleans has the answer - when the City Fathers decided to remove the statue of Robert E Lee from Lee Circle in December 2014 there was an announcement that a statue commemorating Superman was to be erected. 

Liberals, remember the warning of George Santayana.