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sizeable_interest on October 11st, 2017 at 01:52 UTC »

Henan province’s “mega Mao”, was built in a rural corner of Tongxu county at a cost of 3m yuan (about $600,000)

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This picture shows that Mao is no more. The hands, legs and feet appeared to have been hacked off, and a black cloth draped over his head. This statue was actually never authorized from the government and ordered to be torn down.

Apparently, It was built by an industrial capitalist obsessed with Mao:

According to villagers and reports on online chat sites, the statue was the idea of a local businessman, Sun Qingxin, the head of the Lixing Group, a conglomerate that manufactures machinery and owns food-processing facilities, hospitals and schools. Mr. Sun paid for the statue, they said.

Mr. Sun is also the deputy chairman of the County People’s Congress Standing Committee, a powerful local position.

“He is crazy about Mao,” said a villager who identified himself as Mr. Wang, a potato farmer. “His factory is full of Maos.”

Individual pictures:

https://i.imgur.com/O4aeEl7.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/oVSfaNn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/GJSHUuS.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/aHIOrVP.jpg

OatsNraisin on October 11st, 2017 at 02:03 UTC »

I know gold is a symbol of power and wealth, guess when it's used this much it looks like cheese.

number9muses on October 11st, 2017 at 02:29 UTC »

I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”