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Saddam Hussein’s statue toppled: 10 years on
10 years on from the destruction of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad Arabian Business looks back at other well-known political monuments that were defacedn
This picture taken on October 14, 2012 shows workers taking down the last bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin in Ulan-Bator, the capital of Mongolia, after Mayor Bat-Uul Erdene denounced the communist leader as a ‘murderer’. For decades Vladimir Lenin was worshipped by Mongolian schoolchildren as Teacher Lenin
Ethiopian youths chant as they stand on the toppled statue, sculptured in a pure style of socialist realism, of Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 23 May 1991 in Addis Ababa, two days after the departure in exile of Ethiopian pro-communist strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam. Mengistu, who, after a coup in 1977, set out to create a socialist state in Ethiopia aligned with the communist bloc, was overthrown in 1991 by the Ethiopian People’s Democratic Front
Iraqis stand 19 October 2005 near the destroyed statue of Abu Jaafar al-Mansour that was blown up in an overnight explosion in Baghdad. Al-Mansour is the Abbasid Caliph who built Baghdad in A.D. 762
A young Lithuanian girl sits on the toppled statue of Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 01 September 1991 in Vilnius after the monument was removed from the center of the Lithuanian capital in the aftermath of the failed coup in the Soviet Union
Iraqis destroy a statue of President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on April 9, 2003 after it was pulled down by a US armored vehicle. US troops moved into the heart of the Iraqi capital meeting little resistance
Residents of Budapest walk past a part of a huge statue of Stalin during a demonstration against the communist domination. Stalin’s giant-size statue was toppled from the pedestal and the head was rolled around on the street. The Red Army, stationed in Hungary under the 1947 peace treaty, attacked and seized 12 November 1956 the Hungarian capital and crushed the anti-communist uprising
The statue of Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich (Ulyanov) Lenin is dismantled 23 August 1991 in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania as the government banned the Communist Party. Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 and declared its independence in 1990
U.S marines and Iraqis are seen on April 9, 2003 as the statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is toppled at al-Fardous square in Baghdad, Iraq
USmarines climb up to topple a statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003 at al-Fardous square in Baghdad, Iraq
A file picture shows a US Marine covering the face of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s statue with the US flag in Baghdad’s al-Fardous square on April 9, 2003. Five years after a US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein and then hanged him, hundreds of members of his former Baath Party are returning to public life but regret the end of his iron-fisted rule. (AFP/Getty Images)
