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The Intransigent Faction
18th December 2015, 17:28
So, remember when I called the Liberals "Tory-lite" in the 2015 Canadian election thread? That's been proven apt yet again. It turns out the Liberals will go ahead with the "Victims of Communism Memorial" the Conservatives had planned, but on a smaller scale and slightly more out of the way than if it were right next to the Supreme Court.

But wait! It gets even better:


The government plans to hold a national competition in 2016 to choose a revised design that fits with the memorials new location and budget, which has been scaled back to $3 million from $5.5 million. (The Conservative government, which had pledged more than $4 million to the project, already spent $370,000, Joly revealed.)

The government will launch public consultations early next year. Canadians across the country will have the chance to have their voices heard from the outside of the memorial design process through the final selection, Joly said. The aim is to complete the memorial by 2018.

Oh! How about a worker on a forklift, chasing down a capitalist? That sounds perfect for the public square, and it would fit right in after the revolution. :grin:

Guardia Rossa
18th December 2015, 17:45
the Liberals will go ahead with the "Victims of Communism Memorial"

They will bring the Romanovs to Canada?? :unsure:

Aslan
18th December 2015, 23:22
We'll turn it into the the ''victims of capitalism'' memorial once the working class overthrows capitalism. That'll show them!

Armchair Partisan
18th December 2015, 23:45
Actually, it would probably be an interesting idea to try and troll the design competition. Anyone know how it will be organized?

Aslan
19th December 2015, 00:00
my idea for statue: A fat cat capitalist having sexual relations with a young peasant.

reason: To represent the capitalist class fucking us over!

Ismail
20th December 2015, 00:54
Anti-communist memorials are always fun. In Albania for example you'll learn that tons of the "victims" who were killed in the course of 1942-1945 were doctors, lawyers, teachers, clergymen, and other seemingly admirable positions (as if commies just went around shooting teachers all day) but a bit more searching reveals that they served as prefects, gendarmerie commanders, government ministers, propagandists, and other roles during the fascist occupation of the country. It's portrayed as no big deal because they supposedly weren't "really" betraying their country, they were just waiting for the Italians and Nazis to get defeated so they could be given full control of a "democratic" Albania under British or American auspices after the war. In other words they were opportunists willing to serve whatever master so long as it wasn't the working-class.

There's a similar situation in the Baltics where a great many "patriots" killed during or immediately after WWII had a suspiciously strong yet totally coincidental tendency to be quislings.