Soviet Monument gets "Makeover"

[Blitzvogel]

bull, they fought for oppression and spread that for decades...never mind for their own people. the oppressors were the ones that made the statue, not the fighting men they forced to fight with guns pointed at their backs.

They had the capability to put their guns on their "oppressors" if they wanted. Would it be wrong to make a monument to soldiers who died in the current Iraq conflict, whom many did not want to be there, but were in the military at the time the war began and got sent anyways? So I guess any issued Medal of Honor really is just a slap in the face of our fighting men? There is honor in forced struggle (or at least I think so). Fighting men are subject to governments, regardless of how you or they feel/felt about it and defiling a monument commemorating those men (regardless of their mission) I think is a bit disgusting. It may mean oppression to one person, but it may be a source of pride for others.

 

[Triumph]

I'd say it was disrespectful on its face but we'd probably need to live in Bulgaria and know their history/attitude towards the Soviets before really making any judgements. No one here seems qualified to really answer that question.

 

[0roo0roo]

They had the capability to put their guns on their "oppressors" if they wanted. Would it be wrong to make a monument to soldiers who died in the current Iraq conflict, whom many did not want to be there, but were in the military at the time the war began and got sent anyways? So I guess any issued Medal of Honor really is just a slap in the face of our fighting men? There is honor in forced struggle (or at least I think so). Fighting men are subject to governments, regardless of how you or they feel/felt about it and defiling a monument commemorating those men (regardless of their mission) I think is a bit disgusting. It may mean oppression to one person, but it may be a source of pride for others.

Like it or not the soviets enslaved those countries for decades, those troops brought that on their countries, and so such a monument is nothing to respect. this has nothing to do with individuals, individual soldiers did not put up that monument.

 

[Arkaign]

Like it or not the soviets enslaved those countries for decades, those troops brought that on their countries, and so such a monument is nothing to respect. this has nothing to do with individuals, individual soldiers did not put up that monument.

this x1000000.

 

[Albatross]

I sh!t on Russia and its monuments.