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Woman strikes a Swedish neonazi with her handbag, 1985
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She got honoured with a monument in Alingsås for exactly this. There is also an Wikipedia article about this incidence.
Of course he did.
The statue is awesome, but it fails to capture the hatred and aggression in the photo.
Yeah I was going to say, the statue didn't capture her facial expression.
Back then Nazis were nearly universally understood as bad. Especially since there still were many living survivors of the Nazi's genocide.
If this happened today, the left would get endless criticism. But I fully agree we should bring this back.
They understood how talking to nazis needs to be done.
B-but it's literally Nazism to refuse to tolerate Nazis!!!1! (Never mind the fact that tolerance would be the thirst thing to go in a Nazi-dominated society.)
She easily looks 5-10 years older than my wife and I. And we’re in our mid 40s. But that still wouldn’t make her an old lady at this point.
The statue is titled, "The Old Woman with the Handbag".
The woman in the picture was 38 when it was taken. The artist made her look older for some reason.
I think it's just time doing its thing. The artist probably saw her as old because she dressed like an old person dressed in 2015.
I don't think she was particularly youthful-looking in 1985 either tbh.
Probably not, no, but I can't see what else lead to the name. The artist must just have assumed due to clothing and style.
I'm happy to hear that the statu finally was put up. There was so much debate and arguments about it, mostly about it encouraging violence especially if taken out of context and also her still living family being unhappy with the portraition of her.
I remember the debates but I never actually heard how it ended.