The Department of Canadian Heritage has made a difficult decision regarding their monument *Memorial to the Victims of Communism – Canada, a Land of Refuge* : chapotraphouse

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 68 points 4 months ago

[+] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 62 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That’s on top of the original price tag:

The price tag for the project has ballooned to an estimated $7.5 million — including $6 million in public funds — from an original budget of $1.5 million that was supposed to be funded entirely through private donations from Tribute to Liberty.

Lifetime $8.5 million cost for a slab of granite and some metal rods. Some contractor’s palms had to have been greased here.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

that was supposed to be funded entirely through private donations from Tribute to Liberty

Okay so who are the elected officials who approved public money for this so they can be stoned to death

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

Smash them with the memorial

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago

i can only assume they went non-union for the trades

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 51 points 4 months ago

"Man this is going to give tankies so much free ammo."

"Yeah it's crazy all this free ammo we keep getting, anyway, keep firing the machine gun!!!"

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The Cope: Well now it's more accurate because it's about the nameless millions who died because of Communism!

Big bad Stalin came into Eastern Europe and ate everyone's records

He wanted to eat their grains, but would settle for names

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 36 points 4 months ago

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a zero percent reason to remember the name

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stalin-comical-spoon

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

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[–] dom@hexbear.net 48 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Protesting the monument, but it's because I want them to rebrand it as a communism victory memorial

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)

see previous thread:

photo of the monument edited to say "victories of communism"

https://hexbear.net/comment/6741922 by @hellinkilla@hexbear.net

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Canada finally admits they're trash

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

Tankies vindicated like always

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

You're telling me the government of kkkanada said that Stalin did nothing wrong?

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 40 points 4 months ago

There's just some freaky link between anticommunism and mouth-frothing racist genocide we can't work out. Excepting liberal anticommunism I mean wonder-who-thats-for

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago

Well, a land of refuge, for nazis kkkanada

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Surprised they took it down tbh Canada loves their nazi monuments

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"The Estonian summer camp does not now and has never honoured Nazi collaborators and our children have never been indoctrinated into worshipping Nazi leaders as alleged."

She added that the campers also commemorate Black Ribbon Day, which is formally recognized by the European Union and Canada as a day of remembrance for victims of Stalinism and Nazism.

jagoff

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

"sure we had a monument to Nazi officers that we had children honour and lay wreaths upon but we would never indoctrinate our children into worshipping Nazi leaders! Now excuse me, I have to head back to the Franz Augsberger Memorial Summer Camp"