Communists appetite for cancelling history and destroying art is nothing new

Robert E. Lee statue was melted down. A piece of American history was erased. Whether you agree or disagree with the role Lee played during the Civil War, he should be remembered. But communists, like the Taliban are good at destroying art and erasing history.

Here is a true story from Romania. You may have heard about an artist named Constantin Brancusi. Considered the patriarch of modern sculpture, his artworks are breaking records at the auction houses like Christies

$71 Million Constantin Brancusi Breaks Record | ArtsyConstantin Brancusi's sculpture La Jeune fille sophistiquée (1928/1932) sold for $71 million at Christie’s

Born in the little village of Hobita, Romania in 1876 in a humble peasant family, he displayed an aptitude for wood carving at an early age. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907

In Paris he worked in the atelier of famed French sculptor Auguste Rodin. He quit only after two months quipping "Nothing can grow under the shade of big trees". After leaving Rodin's atelier, Brancusi started developing his own abstract, revolutionary style of sculpture.

His works became increasingly popular in the U.S, where he visited several times, France and the rest of Europe, as well as in India and Australia. Major art collectors like Peggy Guggenheim, John Quinn and the Maharajah of Indore, Yeshwant Rao Holkar commissioned his art.

In 1938 he finished the World War I monument assembly in Târgu-Jiu Romania where he had spent much of his childhood. The Table of Silence, The Gate of the Kiss, and Endless Column commemorate sacrifice of Romanians troops who fought against the forces of the Central Powers in WWI

In 1953, perhaps after learning that Brancusi preferred to continue to live in France, the Romanian communists decided Brancusi's art was decadent, reactionary and didn't represented the values of the proletariat. As such they sought to erase Brancusi and his art it from history.

A regional commie boss named Costantin Babalac who was the Secretary of the Communist Youth organization in Targu-Jiu County, called one his lap dogs named Tănasie Lolescu and ordered him to tear down the Endless Column and sell it for scrap metal.

The money resulted from the sale of the magnificent sculpture as scrap metal was supposed to fund the construction of a sports stadium in the capital Bucharest. Initially, comrade Lolescu requested the assistance of Sov-Rom Petrol, a joint Soviet-Romanian partnership company.

Lolescu wanted to borrow a heavy Soviet made bulldozer from Sov-Rom, but fortunately at the time the machine was sent elsewhere for another job, so the commie activist had to try something else. So he picked a Romanian made IAR tractor. Which it turns out, wasn't' up to the task.

No matter how hard the commies tried to pull it with chains and the tractor out of the ground, the Endless Column didn't budge. "We tried until the chains broke" said the tractor driver, comrade Milotin. "We replaced the chains and moved them higher, they broke again"

"We would have succeeded for sure if we had the Soviet bulldozer at our disposal"
Comrade Lolescu later became the Mayor of the town of Motru and in an interview he gave a newspaper after the 1989 anti-communist revolution said he regrets his actions.

I wonder if years from now any of the Demshevik imbeciles who unfortunately succeeded tearing down and destroying Gen. Lee's statue because it it doesn't reflect their woke values will have any regrets for their stupid actions.

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