THEY were once feted as pioneers, leaders who created empires and powerful nations, worthy characters of worship by their successors. Some of their statues stood on their pedestals for centuries in city squares and other central locations, seen by millions of passers-by and pointed to reverentially by parents and teachers of successive generations of schoolchildren.
Now, however, the statues are being toppled.
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