>>5854029 (PB)
It is a strategy to get people to accept socialism. It keeps people isolated and unable to connect with their processors. That keeps them from properly evaluating the claims made for socialism. When, as with the statues, you hide the history of a people, it stops being "a people".
To be a conservative requires that link … else, what are you conserving? They are literally pulling our foundation out from under us. It goes much deeper, but this is not the place for a full treatise.
When you separate a people from their history, you make orphans of them and can shape their future pretty much however you wish.