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The toppled Column of the Virgin on the Prague Old Town Ring, newspaper photo from Das Interessante Blatt, issue of 14 November 1918

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    The Fall of the Symbols of Habsburg Rule

    The destruction of symbols of foreign domination – including the Column of the Virgin Mary in Prague and the Maria-Theresa Monument in Bratislava – gave expression to a sense of victory over national suppression and of newly achieved independence. But another interesting aspect of these actions is the “afterlife” of these historical monuments and the public treatment of them in the years after 1989.