Churchill will answer

“being racist” – wrote unknown black paint on the plinth with a four-meter figure of Churchill, dashing it carved in stone the name. The bronze overcoat tape strapped a piece of cardboard with the slogan of the protests, “black Lives matter.” The most famous of the British politics of the twentieth century, whose image was immortalized in the monument in Parliament square in London, often recall the part in the Anglo-Boer war, the death from starvation of nearly three million people of Indian Bengal, and another statement to the Royal Commission on Palestine in 1937, which archives are preserved for posterity. Then future Prime Minister of Britain did not recognize the damage done to the indigenous population of North America and Australia, colonialists, – the last he publicly called “stronger”, “wiser” and “best” race.

London, Churchill stood in contrast to Edward Colston at Bristol. The monument in honor of businessman and philanthropist who lived in this city at the turn of XVII-XVIII centuries, was established in 1895. Through the funds that exist to this day, Colston has invested its capital in the improvement of local schools, hospitals, churches and almshouses, except that he earned his on the slave trade from Africa. With the statue, and above contention the crowd took his own viciously: it kicks dragged to the waterfront and dumped in the water, pre-Bay bronze face of the Englishman crimson paint. The footage captured someone’s foot on the neck of the statue – so she decided to “take revenge” for the actions of the American police who killed Floyd.

On the other side of the English channel, in Belgium, the victims of the massacres were the monuments to king Leopold II. In Ghent to bust threw “bloody” bag with the words “I can’t breathe” and he pulled the marble neck with a rope, and the monument in Antwerp was set on fire. In addition, the Internet has launched a petition to dismantle all the monuments in memory of the ruler of the second half of the nineteenth century, and at the same time to erase his name from the names of streets and city facilities. Leopold II, who did a lot for his Kingdom in 44 years on the throne, has gone down in history as the conqueror of the valley of the river Congo, where the Belgians conducted a brutal colonial policy with the extermination of the indigenous population. However, the activists demand from the Belgian government not only symbolic, but also political gesture, namely the payment of compensation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.