I'm Polish - a post-Soviet block country - and I enjoy a good statue toppling! Why has it taken the US so long to start removing statues of racists, slavers, and shitty men from the bad times when they still had power? Poland changed all the street names named after bolsheviks and everything. Like, in Philly where I live there once was a mayor whose campaign slogan was 'vote white' and he still had a statue dedicated to him until a month ago.