Twitter Users Share 29 Statues That Are Better Than The Ones Protesters Are Tearing Down

In April 1985, Danuta Danielsson was 38 years old when her famous reaction to a neo-nazi demonstration by the Nordic Reich Party was captured by Hans Runesson. She had moved to Sweden a few years earlier, having married a Swedish man. Her mother had been at the Majdanek concentration camp, not Auschwitz. Danuta regretted the incident and all that followed. She was battling psychological problems and three years later, at 41, she committed suicide. (https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/danuta-fran-polen-var-tanten-med-vaskan/) The statue was not without controversy. (https://mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/184320596645)

What a woman!

I remember reading about him. An amazing and Very modest man. I think there is a show somewhere where they put him in an audience and he didn’t know they had surrounded him with all the hundreds of descendants of the children he had saved.

This is probably in Grenada, the country in the West Indies. Not Granada, the land-locked city in Spain. Though there is a New Granada too, which seems to be a catch-all for the Spanish colonies in the americas.

It was quite interesting reading about the famine. Initially, there was a huge response by the British government to help the famine victims and very large charity drives throughout the British isles. However, after the first year of the famine public sympathy had dried up. Papers were blaming mismanagement in Ireland, underestimating the number of people affected by on going starvation. Politicians were concerned ongoing intervention in the food markets was having more a detrimental then beneficial effect. Public sympathy had turned to hostility as waves of Irish migrants arrived in Britain. So the remaining years of famine the Irish peasants were on their own. It reminded me of the way the EU responded to the migrant crisis in modern times, initially with a huge out pouring of empathy and accepting many millions in, then cold disinterest and rejection.

Beautiful

That's how a true leader should be, not some idiot who can wage a war by typing gibberish on Twitter.

He helped the allies win the war by breaking the Enigma code, but after the war him being gay was the only thing that mattered. Nowadays he is praised for what he has achieved, but his contemporaries condemned him for whom he loved.

Brilliant movie "The Imitation Game" starring Benedict Cumberbatch... is brilliant, heartbraking, and makes me so mad on his behalf. He was treated horrifically; used by the government for his immense genius, and literally tortured by them for his sexuality. the government-sanctioned bigotry was horrific. He deserved better, & thankfully received a postumous pardon for his conviction due to his sexuality. Sadly, he committed suicide within 3 years of his arrest for being gay, just before his 42nd birthday.

That poor man. He saved millions of lives, helped shorten the war. And yet he died by a poisoned apple(suicide) Just because he was a homosexual.

Benedict Cumberbatch played amazing Alan Turing's role! Amazing story!

I watched a movie about him! I think it was called the imitation game. It's a very nice movie, I recommend it to everyone!

So sad and wrongly treated for being his true self.!!!

There is also a statue to Alan Turing in the grounds of the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. Much revered.

The apple in his hand might reference how he died. His death was ruled as a suicide by eating an apple covered with cyanide poisoning. Evidence now suggests that it was an accidental poisoning. Others speculate a conspiracy where one of the most brilliant minds was murdered because he was a threat. No one will ever really know what happened. He saved millions of people with his genius mind. It so sad because he had so much ahead of him.

wow, great painting, and I just love it. it's as good as like game of thrones dragons names

Gay Village!

Yes.

Instead of asking for an apology, they pardoned him. Absolute rubbish of a pardon.

So sad

The US sent a whole shipload back to Nazi Germany

Member of a royal family sold into slavery. It's sad, but it's interesting, makes you think...

People talk all the time about how Americans saved everyone in WWII. It was women. If women hadn’t stepped up to do all the work while the men went off to war, entire countries would have collapsed.

Powerful and sad at same time

I've read her diary when I was 14 and I couldn't do it again. Reading it with the knowledge of what happened was emotionally too stressful for me at that age.

That’s odd.... I know Virginia like the back of my hand and no one has ever told me that this beautiful and meaningful statue existed!

For those who are confused about Spanish and Portuguese mentioned above: Magellan was indeed Portuguese, but he sailed under the Spanish flag.

Thanks for sharing this, I didn't know. So powerful ...

I wasn't familiar with Miss Davison, so I did research. She was an English suffragette. During one of her protests, she threw herself in front of the King's horse at Epsom Derby. She died four days later.

While Riel did sentence Thomas Scott to execution by firing squad, he himself never carried weapons and never personally killed anyone. He was a leader who led a rebellion, who was then executed for treason.

I like the idea of this but making them naked feels a bit debasing.

Boy is this information wrong! Bartholdi designed it to stand at the entrance of the Suez Canal in Egypt. They turned it down because of cost.

Reminds me painfully of Marikana South Africa. Imperialism and Capitalism at their best

F**k Franco! :P

Yes! We need more of these.

I thought he had four arms for a minute.

I will always be confused by the stone they used for this incredible monument.

Where is this statue?

Who chose the proportions for that statue?!

I did research since I wasn't familiar with Mary Barbour. She was closely associated with the Red Clydeside movement in the early 20th century and especially for her role as the main organiser of the women of Govan who took part in the rent strikes of 1915

Its natural that this woman's story makes people feel uncomfortable. During the 19th century everyone in Britain was told colonialism and missionary work was an unmitigated good, because it allowed people like Slessor to do the things she did. After decolonisation in the 1970s we were told it was a terribly corrupt practice which led to widespread, abuse, exploitation and destruction of native cultures through arrogance. I sought out some opinions from the people who were evangelised and guess what? There was no consensus even among them. One man said "Westernisation was wonderful. No body kills anyone anymore, we can trade for food and clothes" and another said "westernisation was terrible. Everybody has become an alcoholic, no one does proper work. We don't know who we are anymore"