Reply #13: No, Very Relevant for TODAY'S Politicians

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Remember Statutes of the Dead are NOT put up for the glorification of the Dead but to glorified the people in power today. Thus after Caesar was dead, Augustus declared him a god, thus making Augustus the heir of a god. Stalin did the same with Lenin (while also putting his own statutes up to further his god-like status among the people). As to Gandhi's statute being all over India, again a lot of Indian politicians wanted to share the Indian's people value of Gandhi.

Thus the questions is why is China putting the largest statute of Mao in Tibet? The answer is simple to further make the point that Tibet is part of China. Mao is the clear symbol of Communist China, no one will mistake a Statute of Mao as being from the US, the EU, India or what ever country you want to name. This is the same reason there have been a constant effort by the GOP to name things after Ronald Reagan, to connect in people's mind, good things with Reagan and thus the GOP. All countries do this to some degree (and it varies over time).