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Anniversary of Destruction

At the first Tolerance Poster Show in Ljubljana, Slovenia in March 2017, many posters were defaced or torn down. This March, we held another exhibition in Ljubljana to mark the seventh anniversary of the first exhibition, and the vandalism of posters happened again. 

This kind of treatment of Tolerance posters occurs often, but exclusively in Eastern European countries. Why? We can talk about that. One thing is certain: whenever a local politician or wannabe politician publicly speaks out against the exhibition, the vandalism of the posters begins the following day.



 

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