Damnatio memoriae
Practice of excluding and removing details about a person from official records and accounts
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| 2015 | Ukraine initiated a decommunization process that resulted in the dismantling of 1,320 Lenin statues and the renaming of roads and structures previously named under Soviet authority. |
| December 2013 | Jang Song-thaek was abruptly accused of being a counter-revolutionary, stripped of all his political posts, expelled from the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), arrested, and executed. As part of damnatio memoriae, his photos were removed from official media and his image was digitally erased from photographs featuring other North Korean leaders. |
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