"With this nation's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created"

I keep poking at a short story based on a literal fever dream I had, where I woke up from the torment nexus and learned we were all reactionary war criminals being rehabilitated by being forced to live in the hell we'd fought to make, over and over again until we learned better. That whole line of thinking is real cognitohazard shit, though.

When line goes up enough it overflows the buffer and clobbers the stack.

Me when my.last darkest dungeon character just won't die

The problem being is that they want to take over the history, to subsume it and make it their own

Being capitalists however, they do it on the cheap and we end up here

Cost too much to tear down probably

That and knowing what they rebuild in its place won't look nearly as cool

Yes, but my other point is that they appropriate what is already there. You cannot deny that Ukraine was a major contributor to defeating fascism or very industrious or prosperous under the USSR. Not even the pro-west nationalists and fanboys. But they will try to spin it so that it was simply Ukrainians pulling themselves up by the bootstraps in spite of Russian repression instead of a team effort. You know, a union.

Destroying a statue of a mythological persona means completely denying their successful Soviet history which would be pathetic because their modern history is not better. Instead, you leave it to acknowledge your role, then appropriate it to change the narrative to fit your new image. “We were successful, but the ruskies held us down!” It’s essentially nationalist nostalgia and desire for when they mattered and had strength but discarding the ideology that got them that strength.