I do remember something like two years ago that they were gonna start tearing down statues of him around Belgium and even the main Conservative party didn’t even try to contest it. Idk if anything came from it, and it obviously doesn’t come close to addressing the damage. There’s absolutely no absolute squirmy way to redeem him as a historical figure in any context like they do with confederates here. Out of my family ik there and the few other Belgians I’ve met it does seem to at least be a deep cultural stain on their conscious, Outside of the emergent explicitly fascist party there. That all said tho, Belgiums government from all my second hand knowledge does seem deeeeeply evil.
I do remember something like two years ago that they were gonna start tearing down statues of him around Belgium and even the main Conservative party didn’t even try to contest it. Idk if anything came from it, and it obviously doesn’t come close to addressing the damage. There’s absolutely no absolute squirmy way to redeem him as a historical figure in any context like they do with confederates here. Out of my family ik there and the few other Belgians I’ve met it does seem to at least be a deep cultural stain on their conscious, Outside of the emergent explicitly fascist party there. That all said tho, Belgiums government from all my second hand knowledge does seem deeeeeply evil.