Monumental Mistakes: When Public Statues Become Permanent Embarrassments

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Monumental Mistakes: When Public Statues Become Permanent Embarrassments

Updated Sept. 17, 2024 at 6:15 p.m.*From Mount Rushmore to Lenin's statue at St Petersburg’s Finland Station, political legacies have long been carved into stone, literally. But sometimes the vanity or silliness driving such projects turns them into monumental What-The-Hells. That was undoubtedly the case back in 2021, in the U.S. state of Georgia, when a local mayor was ousted from office after pushing through a project to build a giant chicken…