Controversial statues of the Cold War!

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Chairman Mao\Mao Zedong[]

Location- ?, Henan, China
Height-36.6 meter (120 feet) after the head was partially destroyed and put under black waterproof shrouding.
Cost- Both Chinese businessmen and some local rural communities chipped in with donations of nearly 3,000,000 Yuan ($459,000), according to Chinese the state media.
Made of- Steel and concrete painted in gold.
Fate- Destroyed because it was ugly, an eyesore due to it's huge size and colour, a waste of money and a poor likeness of Mao anyhow.

Margret Thatcher\The Iron Lady[]

Location- House of commons
Height- 6ft
Cost-£150,000
Made of- Bronze
Fate- The plinth was damaged in 2010 and scrapped in 2012.

Location- House of commons
Height- 2.23 metres (7.3 ft)
Cost-£80,000
Made of- Bronze
Fate- The plinth was slightly damaged in 2012 and 2013.

Location- Kent University
Height- 250-foot (76.2 metre)
Cost- ?
Made of- Iron
Fate- Proposed by Kent University Conservative Association (KUCA), but stopped by Kent University officials since it was deemed excessive and Kent County Council thought the shear size of it was a possible Aviation hazard!

Location 1-Grantham town museum
Location 2-London's Guildhall Art Gallery
Height- 8ft
Cost- £150,000
Made of- Marble
Fate-Banished to London's Guildhall Art Gallery after it was beheaded in 2002. Later banished to a remote corner, off-limits to the casual visitor.

Location- House of commons
Height- 10ft
Cost-£300,000
Made of- Bronze
Fate- Banned by Carol Thatcher until it was fixed and dumped in a top-secret government warehouse since she wanted it was recast with a handbag in her mother's hand.

Location- ?, Central London
Height- ?
Cost- Cn$300,000
Made of- ?
Fate- Proposed by London Mayor Boris Johnson, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, former Cabinet minister Lord Tebbit, Conservative Peer Lord Ashcroft and a number of Falklands veterans. They have been amongst those calling for Baroness Thatcher be publicly honored in the heart of the capital. Temporary banned after Len Duvall, leader of the Labour group on the London Assembly said it was "too divisive".

Joseph Stalin[]

Location- Budapest.
Height- Larger than life.
Cost- ?.
Made of- Unknown metal.
Fate- Ripped down in 1956 by a revolutionary mob in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Location- Prague
Height- Larger than life
Cost- ?
Made of- Granite stone
Fate- Ripped down in 1962 by a revolutionary mob in the 1962 Prague Spring.

Vladimir Lenin[]

Location- Neftegorsk (Sakhalin Oblast)
Height- Life size.
Cost- ?
Made of- Unknown stone.
Fate- Strangely it was virtually the only thing in the town that was not destroyed in the Neftegorsk (Sakhalin Oblast) May 28, 1995, Earthquake.

Controversial statues of the Cold War!

Contents

Chairman Mao\Mao Zedong[]

Margret Thatcher\The Iron Lady[]

Joseph Stalin[]

Vladimir Lenin[]

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