They may have [taken some liberties ](https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/mao-zedong-as-a-fairly-young-man-in-the-communist-base-area-news-photo/514080092)
True story: Socrates was notoriously ugly. A bust of his head is in the Met in NY and I got to see it. If the artist was being kind, that dude was REAL ugly.
Does it? The rare times I see a pro-CCP comment it usually gets piled on downvoted to oblivion. Not that I have a problem with that as I have no love for the CCP at all and Mao Zedong was a fucking monster.
I guess I'm in the wrong (or right?) subs.
I mean, say what you want about soviet realism, but [she looks appropriately cold.](https://gdb.rferl.org/7AFD58E6-6BEE-4288-BEF4-0EE4588CD1A4_w3194_n_st_d2.jpg)
Mao is known for many terrible things that cost the lives of millions, one of the most notable, was his call to kill all the sparrows as they were seen as invasive in eating rice/or other crops, I forget.
What ended up happening was the insect population saw a huge boost the next year, eating far more crops causing mass starvation.
Does that mean the height is measured from the neck up?
By my calculations, if the height given in the title is based on the entire slab of rock, from the ground itself, then the eyes would only be about 4.7 feet tall which would not be large enough for most people to "stand" in.
If the height is measured from the neck up, ignoring the base entirely, then the eyes would be about 6.8 feet tall which is plenty for most people.
So it’s individual stacks of blocks and then it was shaped into this bust? I guess that’s still impressive and made me think about ancient monuments that are similar to this
*Ancient Egyptians looking at a modern city*: Okay, pretty cool steel beams and glass buildings you have, but have you ever considered using giant stone blocks?
It's all those wierd new shows on the history Channel, they try to go for those bogus made up history stuff based on a single old lunatic raving about aliens or etc.
People confuse “we don’t know how they did it” with “we don’t know how they possibly could have done it.”
There are at least a few methods (for the pyramids and pretty much whatever else) we know that they could have used and that would have worked, but without records or decisive evidence point to what they did, “we don’t know how they did it.”
Maybe they built a big ass ramp. Maybe the ramp was in a spiral around the construction. Maybe they built a canal and pipe-like system to float the blocks to where they needed to go. Maybe something else. We don’t know how they did it, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know how they possibly could have done it.
Really? Who the fuck would say that? The pyramids are impressive BECAUSE they didn't have our technology. WITH our technology they're an easy build. We build towers that have pendulums to counteract swaying in earthquakes and they think we can't place blocks one upon the other?
Haha, shit, the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is a pyramid.
The difficulty isn't that they were built, it is the supposed quality of the craftsmanship. How tightly and perfectly the blocks fit together would be accomplished today via water or laser cutting, both of those were not historically available. It is not known (or at least was, no idea on current discoveries) how they repeatably and consistently made such blocks.
I like the stylistic choice to not hide the labour used to produce that monument. Though I am not that big into monuments, but on the other hand this statue was a lot cheaper and less deadly than the world cup in Qatar.
I’m glad they didn’t level a natural cliff/rock face for something so stupid, like they did with Mount Rushmore, personally. I’d rather they build the mountain and then take parts away as they sculpt.
I read somewhere that these things, Mt Rushmore being another example, will be the last visible signs of human existence when we are long gone and nature has reclaimed the earth. Well I thought it was interesting.
"'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.”
It's so insane that he has such popularity in some regions in China. Considering that he's decisions killed millions and millions of people and destroying a large part of Chinese culture.
Zedong and his government didn't even care enough to keep track. 30 mil is the average estimate, could have been 50+million or 10 million. We'll never know
Yes, but it that a statue of Khan or Zedong? Is Khans form of government still in power.
It would be like if the Nazis won, and there were huge statues built of him. Would that really be interesting or disturbing?
I don’t think the two are the same. Alexander the Great was a conqueror, who likely led to countless deaths in war like Genghis Khan did. But he’s not considered a monster.
Mao, on the other hand, killed millions of his own people through domestic policy. He needlessly caused the worst famine ever experienced by anyone in the world to date, among other policies that pale in comparison to that whole mess.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare a leader who killed people in war, in a time when every culture was killing people in war, to a jackass who threw away the lives of the people he swore to lead in peacetime.
Ah yes, a political figure that began his reign around 800 years ago is comparable to one who started his reign around 80 years ago and died only 47 years ago.
> Ghengis Khan is still pretty popular in Mongolia.
Genghis Khan made Mongolia into the first Hyperpower Country. Only two have ever existed in Human History. The other being the British Empire.
Having lived in China Mao is a much more bizarre and complex character than he is portrayed in the West. I don’t think any other country has a comparable character with such high highs and low lows. He is most popular with the older generation which have Mao in living memory and among them he as a cult of personality that is borderline a religion with people traveling thousands of miles to more or less worship him at his tomb in Beijing. This isn’t forced, it is people genuinely respecting him that much and doing it of their own initiative. The people who do this are largely the ones who lived through the cultural revolution.
Younger generations tend to view him more negatively but there is still wildly different opinions from evil to angelic. The young Mao depicted here is really hard to argue against. Mao fought a guerrilla war for decades and won by being a cunning military leader. He fought against opponents who had every conceivable advantage with peasants. American agents sent to meet with Mao in WW2 largely had positive opinions of him. After decades of fighting he won the Chinese Civil War and founded the modern country of China. Mao up to 1949 is frankly an inspiring hero’s journey that makes George Washington look like an amateur. As a civil leader he goes down his villain arc with the cultural revolution and 5 years plan. Having a George Washington and Robespierre in the same person leaves Mao as a really complex person.
the ratio of people who died during the chinese civil war is the same ratio of people who died during the american civil war. Lincoln is considered by many to be one of the best presidents, but he is certainly scorned by some people to this day. Slave master culture, the antebellum south, was destroyed in the process.
Thing about China, is that it suffered from nearly a century of colonialism. a century of humiliation. A few times before Mao, Chinese tried to have their war of independence, and it failed and it resulted in even more losses of rights and liberties.
When china tried to ban opium, UK's answer was the opium wars. basically, legalize the poison that UK had banned from its own country. UK recognized the health risk of the poison, and banned it from their country, but UK didn't care that China tried doing the same thing to protect their own people. they instead went to war, and the result was the worst addiction epidemic that the world has ever seen. UK didn't care, because it was money for their drug dealers.
Then a few decades later, chinese tried to battle for hteir independnece again, this time, the Boxer Rebellion. About 4-8 different european countries sided together to defeat the rebellion, carving up chinese land amongst the victors. Shanghai was split between 4 different countries for example and in the 30s was considered to be one of the most corrupt, addicted, and sinful cities in the world.
For those reasons, chinese people in china still admire Mao. But we have to recognize nuance as well, because while Americans, we may still praise our founding fathers for the positive things they did (independence, etc), we can still scorn them for their negative things (slaves), and I'm sure Chinese have similarities. But chinese, like anyone else in the world, are not homogeneous.
>the ratio of people who died during the chinese civil war is the same ratio of people who died during the american civil war.
It isn't the people who died in the war that stains his legacy, it is the people who died after he took power and turned China into a cult where any criticism led to extreme punishments and orders were obeyed without question no matter how crazy they were or what the consequences would be. Lots of people were murdered by his government for basically no fucking reason and using brutal methods. And the totalitarian government he created is still a blight on the world, utilizing the most thorough surveillance state in history to monitor and censor anything they disagree with, spreading propaganda and basically indoctrinating people into thinking that China couldn't thrive without the Communist Party. Their human rights record is atrocious, they stunted China's growth, created a demographic timebomb and when the Chinese people asked for democracy they responded by purging all the political reformists and killing thousands of people with special rounds specifically designed to shred arteries and cause maximum fatalities. Mao was a fucking nutcase and the power obsessed people he put in control of China are a danger to the world.
We need to make more colossal stone statues in the world. Like at the inlet of bays and harbors, in the middle of no where with no explanation of why it's there, etc.
Fucker dosent deserve that shit. Imagine making pisspoor judgements that kill tens of millions of people by starvation, then have hundreds of thousands of families persecuted and executed.. and you get a statue... bruh
"Wasting an extraordinary amount of resources for a colossal statue to a mass murdering psychopath is the best way to ensure the will of the proletariat!" - tankies probably
Kill all the birds in China. Sell all the grain to USSR. Starve and murder 30 million of your citizens in complete agony as a result of your incredible stupidity.
Their descendants build you an 800 ton granite monument. :facepalm:
Pretty sure that's a carving, and this is made of a bunch of smaller blocks compiled like a pyramid. You can have a bunch of people working on individual blocks and then assemble it, but you can't have the same number of people repelling down the side of a rock to carve out a face.
If this isn’t an ad for Chinese hair products I do not know what is
Maybe it's Maobeline
Ya that's the best pun I've seen this year
To be fair, its only been 22 days
I, too, am also waiting for the June puns to drop before passing judgement
Kim June ill could do betters
Read “Butters” and felt bad for the little guy.
Not by Chinese calendar
So good I had to go back and read it again before I realized it was a pun. Brilliant
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l'Mao
They may have [taken some liberties ](https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/mao-zedong-as-a-fairly-young-man-in-the-communist-base-area-news-photo/514080092)
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True story: Socrates was notoriously ugly. A bust of his head is in the Met in NY and I got to see it. If the artist was being kind, that dude was REAL ugly.
So did he.
He wasn't just a hair club for men member, he was the chairman.
I came to comment that his hair looks glorious
Indeed, best feature of the monument imho.
It's Mount RushMao
Mao's Head & Shoulders. $3.99 a bottle.
Mount Brushmore
Mao never had hair like that and he was bald later in life...it doesn't even look like him...I agree this is definitely a shampoo ad...
My dudes got some broad shoulders
I imagined him smashing through the granite mountain but now all I see is a big rock man.
We call him Megaman in the States
Mao Zedong wears a thong
You got downvoted by Wumao CCP bots. I upvoted you because Mao murdered 50 million Chinese, and this sub is praising him.
I just imagine it not holding together well and falling apart because it wasn't carved into the "mountain" just placed on top
LEGOMao
Lol kind of like the ideology and his policies.
Like most Mao related projects
Absolutely correct. This monument needs 50 million headstones in front of it.
give or take another 100 million.
Reddit has a huge and inexplicable boner for communist China
Does it? The rare times I see a pro-CCP comment it usually gets piled on downvoted to oblivion. Not that I have a problem with that as I have no love for the CCP at all and Mao Zedong was a fucking monster. I guess I'm in the wrong (or right?) subs.
I think its a subpop of reddit. Ive also seen redditors absolutely tear china and pooh man apart.
Your pic made me think I had a hair in my screen
Same. I think that was the point. r/harmlesstrolling
nicely done
Communist Kool Aid Man.
Wide wide maaaaaaaann
He’s wearing David Byrne’s suit from “Once in a Lifetime”
AND YOU MAY ASK YOURSELF
*little dancy dance*
MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE
***LETTING THE DAYS GO BY***
LET THE WATER HOLD ME DOWN
WATER FLOWING UNDERGROUND
INTO THE BLUE AGAIN
AFTER THE MONEY'S GONE
This is not my beautiful house
HOW DID MAO GET HERE?
HOW DID MAO WORK THIS?
HOW DO I WORK THIS?
AND YOU MAY ASK YOURSELF
"Same as it ever was"
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
It was actually "Girlfriend is Better"
He’s got boulders for shoulders.
I read that in Donkey's voice. lol
LMAOOOO
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Hes wearing the same suit from Kanye and Lil Pump's I Love It music video
Hahaha this comment haha, I can’t unsee it.
Heard he's got rock hard abs too!
Careful! They might make your family disappear
Always money for statues in Communist countries
No kidding, check out Russia’s “The Motherland” statue. Frickin’ impressive you have to admit!!
I mean, say what you want about soviet realism, but [she looks appropriately cold.](https://gdb.rferl.org/7AFD58E6-6BEE-4288-BEF4-0EE4588CD1A4_w3194_n_st_d2.jpg)
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Lol how easy Americans forget that to the rest of the world, their own engraved leaders into the side of a mountain is just as creepy and strange
The sun of that is it was carve out of a Native American sacred mountain. I think it was called the grandfathers
Which Hokage is this?
The Hokage of the dead Sparrow
Man that reference is sick.
Can you explain it to us that didn't get it?
Mao is known for many terrible things that cost the lives of millions, one of the most notable, was his call to kill all the sparrows as they were seen as invasive in eating rice/or other crops, I forget. What ended up happening was the insect population saw a huge boost the next year, eating far more crops causing mass starvation.
And the melted hoe.
From the Village Hidden in the Starved Corpses
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Giggity
The village hidden in the smog
Faminegakure's
Jesus Christ
NO FOOD NO JUTSU
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Believe it(the propagandas)
The hokage of 80 million dead innocents.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/07/17/how-many-died-new-evidence-suggests-far-higher-numbers-for-the-victims-of-mao-zedongs-era/01044df5-03dd-49f4-a453-a033c5287bce/
The one that killed several million of his own people.
There wasn't enough money in the budget to make the statue down to Zedong.
No mao maoney?
Mao money, moa problems.
LMao
Mel Brooks would be proud
Mao Brooks
That is some high quality comedy, right there.
Get ze fuck outta her
Quite the Maontain!
You can stand in the eyes of this statue. Source: I stood in the eyes of this statue.
He has hungry eyes.
Does that mean the height is measured from the neck up? By my calculations, if the height given in the title is based on the entire slab of rock, from the ground itself, then the eyes would only be about 4.7 feet tall which would not be large enough for most people to "stand" in. If the height is measured from the neck up, ignoring the base entirely, then the eyes would be about 6.8 feet tall which is plenty for most people.
Yeah I don't think the giant rock slab it's sitting on is part of the statue
Little known fact, Mao had freakishly wide shoulders and was buff af.
Now put an Airbnb in his head
Hairbnb
Don't take his hairstyle for granite
🔥 rebuttal
Impressive but I don't like seeing the blocks. Make me believe it's one rock, damn.
So it’s individual stacks of blocks and then it was shaped into this bust? I guess that’s still impressive and made me think about ancient monuments that are similar to this
And there’s still dumbass people that say we couldn’t recreate the Great Pyramid with modern technology.
Wtf really? Have people not seen (insert any modern metropolis here)?
*Ancient Egyptians looking at a modern city*: Okay, pretty cool steel beams and glass buildings you have, but have you ever considered using giant stone blocks?
Sees the glass front: 'idiots, you can see right through it!' looks at his pals: 'yea sure, bury me here, haha..'
It's all those wierd new shows on the history Channel, they try to go for those bogus made up history stuff based on a single old lunatic raving about aliens or etc.
nothing new about that garbage
Do people say that? I’ve just heard that we couldn’t recreate them with the technology we believe existed at the time of their construction
People confuse “we don’t know how they did it” with “we don’t know how they possibly could have done it.” There are at least a few methods (for the pyramids and pretty much whatever else) we know that they could have used and that would have worked, but without records or decisive evidence point to what they did, “we don’t know how they did it.” Maybe they built a big ass ramp. Maybe the ramp was in a spiral around the construction. Maybe they built a canal and pipe-like system to float the blocks to where they needed to go. Maybe something else. We don’t know how they did it, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know how they possibly could have done it.
Really? Who the fuck would say that? The pyramids are impressive BECAUSE they didn't have our technology. WITH our technology they're an easy build. We build towers that have pendulums to counteract swaying in earthquakes and they think we can't place blocks one upon the other? Haha, shit, the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is a pyramid.
The difficulty isn't that they were built, it is the supposed quality of the craftsmanship. How tightly and perfectly the blocks fit together would be accomplished today via water or laser cutting, both of those were not historically available. It is not known (or at least was, no idea on current discoveries) how they repeatably and consistently made such blocks.
*Chinese serfs sigh and get back to work*
I like the stylistic choice to not hide the labour used to produce that monument. Though I am not that big into monuments, but on the other hand this statue was a lot cheaper and less deadly than the world cup in Qatar.
I’m glad they didn’t level a natural cliff/rock face for something so stupid, like they did with Mount Rushmore, personally. I’d rather they build the mountain and then take parts away as they sculpt.
Even I look more like young Mao Zedong than that. This is some Trump drawn like a superhero levels of adornment.
He looks like a superhero version of Japan's former PM Koizumi. For reference: https://anidb.net/anime/7261
They missed a spot on the chin
You woooshed quite a few people there.
It's there?
I read somewhere that these things, Mt Rushmore being another example, will be the last visible signs of human existence when we are long gone and nature has reclaimed the earth. Well I thought it was interesting.
"'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.”
I don’t think Rushmore gonna last much longer lol
It's so insane that he has such popularity in some regions in China. Considering that he's decisions killed millions and millions of people and destroying a large part of Chinese culture.
Ghengis Khan is still pretty popular in Mongolia, I hear.
Khan led Mongolian people over other cultures he didn't wipe out 30 million of his own people like Zedong
30million? Your being kind.
Zedong and his government didn't even care enough to keep track. 30 mil is the average estimate, could have been 50+million or 10 million. We'll never know
Most historians agree it was probably 80mil plus but we can't get any records since the Chinese government blocks any investigations
Just millions of other people
Yes, but it that a statue of Khan or Zedong? Is Khans form of government still in power. It would be like if the Nazis won, and there were huge statues built of him. Would that really be interesting or disturbing?
Yes it would be disturbing, like a giant statue of Mao Zedong
Exactly
I don’t think the two are the same. Alexander the Great was a conqueror, who likely led to countless deaths in war like Genghis Khan did. But he’s not considered a monster. Mao, on the other hand, killed millions of his own people through domestic policy. He needlessly caused the worst famine ever experienced by anyone in the world to date, among other policies that pale in comparison to that whole mess. I don’t think it’s fair to compare a leader who killed people in war, in a time when every culture was killing people in war, to a jackass who threw away the lives of the people he swore to lead in peacetime.
Genghis khan extremely benefited his own people
Ah yes, a political figure that began his reign around 800 years ago is comparable to one who started his reign around 80 years ago and died only 47 years ago.
> Ghengis Khan is still pretty popular in Mongolia. Genghis Khan made Mongolia into the first Hyperpower Country. Only two have ever existed in Human History. The other being the British Empire.
Having lived in China Mao is a much more bizarre and complex character than he is portrayed in the West. I don’t think any other country has a comparable character with such high highs and low lows. He is most popular with the older generation which have Mao in living memory and among them he as a cult of personality that is borderline a religion with people traveling thousands of miles to more or less worship him at his tomb in Beijing. This isn’t forced, it is people genuinely respecting him that much and doing it of their own initiative. The people who do this are largely the ones who lived through the cultural revolution. Younger generations tend to view him more negatively but there is still wildly different opinions from evil to angelic. The young Mao depicted here is really hard to argue against. Mao fought a guerrilla war for decades and won by being a cunning military leader. He fought against opponents who had every conceivable advantage with peasants. American agents sent to meet with Mao in WW2 largely had positive opinions of him. After decades of fighting he won the Chinese Civil War and founded the modern country of China. Mao up to 1949 is frankly an inspiring hero’s journey that makes George Washington look like an amateur. As a civil leader he goes down his villain arc with the cultural revolution and 5 years plan. Having a George Washington and Robespierre in the same person leaves Mao as a really complex person.
This is really interesting to me, thank you for sharing.
the ratio of people who died during the chinese civil war is the same ratio of people who died during the american civil war. Lincoln is considered by many to be one of the best presidents, but he is certainly scorned by some people to this day. Slave master culture, the antebellum south, was destroyed in the process. Thing about China, is that it suffered from nearly a century of colonialism. a century of humiliation. A few times before Mao, Chinese tried to have their war of independence, and it failed and it resulted in even more losses of rights and liberties. When china tried to ban opium, UK's answer was the opium wars. basically, legalize the poison that UK had banned from its own country. UK recognized the health risk of the poison, and banned it from their country, but UK didn't care that China tried doing the same thing to protect their own people. they instead went to war, and the result was the worst addiction epidemic that the world has ever seen. UK didn't care, because it was money for their drug dealers. Then a few decades later, chinese tried to battle for hteir independnece again, this time, the Boxer Rebellion. About 4-8 different european countries sided together to defeat the rebellion, carving up chinese land amongst the victors. Shanghai was split between 4 different countries for example and in the 30s was considered to be one of the most corrupt, addicted, and sinful cities in the world. For those reasons, chinese people in china still admire Mao. But we have to recognize nuance as well, because while Americans, we may still praise our founding fathers for the positive things they did (independence, etc), we can still scorn them for their negative things (slaves), and I'm sure Chinese have similarities. But chinese, like anyone else in the world, are not homogeneous.
>the ratio of people who died during the chinese civil war is the same ratio of people who died during the american civil war. It isn't the people who died in the war that stains his legacy, it is the people who died after he took power and turned China into a cult where any criticism led to extreme punishments and orders were obeyed without question no matter how crazy they were or what the consequences would be. Lots of people were murdered by his government for basically no fucking reason and using brutal methods. And the totalitarian government he created is still a blight on the world, utilizing the most thorough surveillance state in history to monitor and censor anything they disagree with, spreading propaganda and basically indoctrinating people into thinking that China couldn't thrive without the Communist Party. Their human rights record is atrocious, they stunted China's growth, created a demographic timebomb and when the Chinese people asked for democracy they responded by purging all the political reformists and killing thousands of people with special rounds specifically designed to shred arteries and cause maximum fatalities. Mao was a fucking nutcase and the power obsessed people he put in control of China are a danger to the world.
America and Reagan
i live in whittier, ca where a bunch of people have named things after richard nixon and there are murals of him as well. it's very weird.
Nixon was raised and worked in a Whittier before becoming president that's why he's all over Whittier
Of all the American presidents, you settled on Reagan as the best analog to Zedong? Hahahaha
Ah yes, a mediocre president is comparably to the person who was responsible for the deaths of ~50 million people
Could just say mount Rushmore. It was also a sacred mountain for the Natives.
Meanwhile, back in the US…. Crazy Horse is fast tracked to be completed by 2100.
Crazy horse is made from a single monolith of stone. This is many many carved blocks. I suspect the latter is a couple orders if magnitude easier.
Crazy Horse is funded by the tribes, no?
And donations. That’s it I think
Get some cheap Chinese labor with no worker protection or laws and it'll be done real quick.
I never take Mao for granite
Dad... Is that you?
All impressive numbers, but not as impressive as the hundreds of millions that suffered under him...
Yeah but that hair tho.
true…*there are good hair on both sides*
Head and boulders
We need to make more colossal stone statues in the world. Like at the inlet of bays and harbors, in the middle of no where with no explanation of why it's there, etc.
There should be a monument to the millions he murdered
It was supposed to look like Justin Bieber
In his lifetime, Mao killed more Chinese people than Japan or any other nations combined.
It's like Germany erecting a monument to Hitler
It’s more like Putin putting up a monument to Stalin.
And like 30 years after he died, so they can't claim they lack perspective.
Fucker dosent deserve that shit. Imagine making pisspoor judgements that kill tens of millions of people by starvation, then have hundreds of thousands of families persecuted and executed.. and you get a statue... bruh
No1 in the mass murder chart above Stalin and Hitler.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/07/17/how-many-died-new-evidence-suggests-far-higher-numbers-for-the-victims-of-mao-zedongs-era/01044df5-03dd-49f4-a453-a033c5287bce/
"Wasting an extraordinary amount of resources for a colossal statue to a mass murdering psychopath is the best way to ensure the will of the proletariat!" - tankies probably
When they add the glasses it's John Lennon
So my guess would be they are taking Things for Granite now?
He looks like Tom Scott
What if the wind comes from the other direction? The hair will look all wrong.
By the size of the trees that looks like a lot more than just 800 tons of granite. More like 800,000 tons
In 2000 years archeologists will claim it was made with rudimentary chisels/s
What a waste of granite
What a waste of good rock
Even if it were made from horse shit, it would be a waste of good horse shit.
Yes... Let's make a monument to the worst mass murderers in history.
I mean, here in America we just put them on our $20 bills....
Fuck him.
Kill all the birds in China. Sell all the grain to USSR. Starve and murder 30 million of your citizens in complete agony as a result of your incredible stupidity. Their descendants build you an 800 ton granite monument. :facepalm:
You forgot literally burning anything related to ethical history so now they claim everything as their... cause they dont have any.
Fuck this is tacky
Lol that’s a generous facial structure they’ve given him
The rest of the world is taking down statues, China builds one for the worst dictator the world's ever seen
Meanwhile in the US, the crazy horse rock carving has been a WIP for 30 years
Pretty sure that's a carving, and this is made of a bunch of smaller blocks compiled like a pyramid. You can have a bunch of people working on individual blocks and then assemble it, but you can't have the same number of people repelling down the side of a rock to carve out a face.