The noble history of toppling statues (or in one case blowing them up). (See "Pulling it down: no gods, no cults" for an article attacking cults of personality.) A few examples:
The Tsar of Russia – used in a scene in Sergei Eisenstein’s film October
The dictator Stalin meets his fate – Budapest 1956
Saddam Hussein – down he goes – Baghdad 2003
Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin city centre blown up – 1966
Paris Communards pull down the Colonne Vendome – 1871
Slave trader Colston takes a dive – Bristol 2020
General Williams Carter Wickham of the Confederate army is no more – Richmond, Virginia 2020
One of the last statues of Franco in Spain is finally removed
Gaddafi loses his head
See "Pulling it down: no gods, no cults" for an article attacking cults of personality.