Flutterby™! : Retiring monuments

Radley Balko in The Washington Post: We should treat Confederate monuments the way Moscow and Budapest have treated communist statues.

Each monument includes a plaque explaining when it was erected, how it was funded and that it has been preserved and installed in the park not to celebrate Stalin or Lenin or their ideas but because of its historical significance.

One statute of Stalin stands – minus its nose – in front of a harrowing sculpture depicting dozens of human heads stacked behind barbed wire. It's a monument to the victims of totalitarianism. It isn't difficult to imagine a similar park where a statute of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis or Nathan Bedford Forrest might stand in front of a monument to victims of lynching.