Chairman Mao statue in France sparks outrage

Guards had to protect the statues after the Green Party threatened to
dismantle them.

Before his death, Mr Freche defended his decision to honour Lenin and Mao,
insisting that their political legacy outweighed the bloodshed linked with
their regimes.

This week, Mr Freche’s Socialist successor in Montpellier, Pierre Moure, said: “These
figures symbolise the major political ideologies of the 20th century It’s a
tribute to history and not a way of glorifying dictators.”

But Arnaud Julien, municipal councillor for the Right-wing UMP party, slammed
the choice as “provocation”.

“If you follow that logic, then fascism was also a major ideology of the
last century. Should Mussolini and Hitler also have their statues?”

Mr Moure claimed there was a difference. “The ideologies represented on
the square are of liberation… despite [some of the figures’] darker sides.
Fascism and Nazism are the very negation of the idea of freedom.

“Mao did indeed cause the death of millions, but he also played a major
role in the rise of China as a power in the 20th century,” he claimed.

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