German Organisations Cover up Statue on Engels’s 200th Birthday Eve to Criticise CCP’s Suppression of Freedom
November 28 this year marked the 200th birthday of German philosopher and one of the founders of Marxism Friedrich Engels. In criticism of the CCP’s suppression of freedom in Hong Kong and in support of the democratic movements in Hong Kong, two German groups presented a performance art in Engels’s birth place, Wuppertal, North-Rhine Westphalia, by covering up a statue of Engels given to the city by China.
China gave a statue of Engels to Wuppertal in 2014. Two German groups, namely the Armin T. Wegner and the Else-Lasker-Schüler associations, arranged four artists to cover up the statue with a black cloth at 11 am on Friday local time (HKT 6 pm), to criticise the CCP’s suppression of freedom. The cloth was printed with the Chinese and German inscriptions, “Once the truth is revealed, nothing can hold it back.”
#China #German #HongKong #Wuppertal #NorthRhineWestphalia #FriedrichEngels #Engels #EngelsStatue #Marxism #CCP #FreedomSuppression
Source: Apple Daily #Nov27
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November 28 this year marked the 200th birthday of German philosopher and one of the founders of Marxism Friedrich Engels. In criticism of the CCP’s suppression of freedom in Hong Kong and in support of the democratic movements in Hong Kong, two German groups presented a performance art in Engels’s birth place, Wuppertal, North-Rhine Westphalia, by covering up a statue of Engels given to the city by China.
China gave a statue of Engels to Wuppertal in 2014. Two German groups, namely the Armin T. Wegner and the Else-Lasker-Schüler associations, arranged four artists to cover up the statue with a black cloth at 11 am on Friday local time (HKT 6 pm), to criticise the CCP’s suppression of freedom. The cloth was printed with the Chinese and German inscriptions, “Once the truth is revealed, nothing can hold it back.”
#China #German #HongKong #Wuppertal #NorthRhineWestphalia #FriedrichEngels #Engels #EngelsStatue #Marxism #CCP #FreedomSuppression
Source: Apple Daily #Nov27
https://bit.ly/34ty1B1