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Today, statues of erstwhile leaders, rulers and heroes lie scattered in graveyards and public squares all over the world.Communist leaders of all sizes, colonial explorers with hands thrust forward in righteous motivation, glowering facsimiles of African dictators made in Korea, fists, boots, disembodied heads, all lie relegated to remote tourist parks or to overgrown backyards of palace museums.These are objects that once controlled and impressed upon public space and imagination, but overnight became mere proxies, subjected to torture, ridicule and public vengeance.
Wehrmacht soldiers of the Third ReichGerman soldiers swearing an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler at the Rathenower Strasse barracks in Berlin, August 2, 1934. Many translated example sentences containing 'dictator' – German-English dictionary and search engine for German translations.
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