Kalah duluan sama patungnya Obama kecil di Jkt --- In [email protected], "sunny" <am...@...> wrote: > > http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-08/19/content_11175818.htm > > > French city to honor Chairman Mao with statue > By Zhang Jiawei (chinadaily.com.cn) > > Updated: 2010-08-19 11:45 > > The city of Montpellier in the south of France is planning to build 10 bronze > statues in honor of the "great men of the 20th century," and Chairman Mao > Zedong, who declared the founding of New China, is among the 10, China News > Agency reported Wednesday. > > The city's former mayor, Georges Freche, who started the initiative, said > they are honoring Chairman Mao because he helped Chinese people regain > dignity. > > Building the statues will help young men think and learn about the political > thoughts of the great men, Freche said. The city on Wednesday unveiled the > statues of Lenin, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Franklin Roosevelt > and Jean Jaures. The five statues will be formally inaugurated next month. > > The 3.3-meter statues each weighs between 850 kg and one ton and cost an > estimated 200,000 euros ($260,000) apiece. Five more statues will go up next > year: Mao, India's Mahatma Gandhi, Israel's Golda Meir, Egypt's Gamal Abdel > Nasser and South Africa's Nelson Mandela. > > Related readings: > Hunan promulgates standards for Mao statues > Chairman Mao's manuscripts on military published > Mao statues fashionable again after four decades > Political reform and Mao today > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
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