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* A more roundabout example: During the Restoration of 1814, the bronze statue of Napoleon on top of the column of the place Vendôme was taken down and molten down to make a replacement statue of king Henry IV for the equestrian statue on the Pont Neuf destroyed during the Revolution.
* A Russian example: the city of Samara once had a monument to the tsar Alexander II the Liberator. When the Bolsheviks came to power, they replaced the statue with Lenin. The humorousness of the situation is that the statue of Lenin was too small for the huge pedestal.
* A statue of Lenin in Odessa, Ukraine was altered into a statue of Darth Vader as part of a desovietization campaign. This was done because the relatively minor nature of the changes was far cheaper than building a new statue entirely.
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