Destruction of statues in the US does not stop the destruction of monuments linked to oppression and slave trade

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The wave of vandalism and statues across the United States is one of the prominent signs of protest sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. But if the protesters can be expected to turn their anger toward headstones in memory of Confederate leaders and slaveholders, the protesters appear to have chosen surprising targets.

State media today released the story of the corruption of the statue of Matthias Baldwin, a Philadelphia-area millionaire in Pennsylvania, and one of the makers of U.S. breakthrough segments and railroads in the second half of the 19th century.

Anonymous tied a rope to the neck of the prolific industrialist's statue and sprayed the words "colonialist" and "killer." One demonstrator even zoomed in and posed alongside the statue holding the rope.

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However, Baldwin was not only a successful industrialist but considered to be the greatest opponents of slavery in history before the Civil War. Baldwin spent a fortune on smuggling slaves from the southern states, a policy that cost him fortune when the southern states refused to buy his products.

But that didn't deter him. He set up a prestigious school for black students, one of the first in the US, and paid teachers' salaries out of his own pocket.

Baldwin is not the only victim of indiscriminate destruction. Protest vandalists vandalized a monument in memory of the hundreds of cavalry of the 54th Massachusetts Battalion in the Civil War. The battalion was among the most decorated black units fought by the Union forces against the continuing enslavement of their brothers in the south.

Another target of the protesters was the statues of two Polish national heroes - Tadeusz Koscuszko and Kazimish Polski - commanders who fought for US and Polish independence and called for the abolition of slavery.

"This is a nauseating act," the Polish ambassador to the United States said after destroying the memorial to the two men in Washington, DC.

Another monument that has been destroyed for no apparent reason is the monument to the victims of the Armenian Holocaust in the early 20th century. The memorial in Denver, Colorado, was covered in red graffiti and read: "Cops are evil." The Armenian community in the US expressed sadness and shock at the act.