In Germany we are rather cautious to not praise our past political leaders.

(I must admit I’ve never heard of anyone celebrating the life King Charles I ever. Nor his successor.) A person who immediately springs to mind would be Margaret Thatcher - UK prime minister during the 1980s. She was (and still is) adored by many, many people; while simultaneously being despised by an equal amount. She either did great things for the country, or ruined the country, depending on your world view. The powers that be keep trying to put up statues of her but they immediately get vandalised and removed.

Tons of them, but for today let's go with the prominent Confederates during the Civil War - Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Nathan Bedford Forrest (Mr. Ku Klux Klan himself), Jefferson Davis, etc. They straight up bailed on the Unites States to maintain slavery, and the amount of statues and shit that remains named after them is appalling

Easy Peazy—- Cristobal Colón. 🙄

In germany we have a proud history of slayers, idiots, dictators, fighting nobility and kings with very low moral standards and more blood on their hands. And some of them have still followers.

We don't have this problem.