Idi amin builds a statue of Hitler

It is claimed that Idi amin once intended to a build a statue of Hitler in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. Say he goes through with it and has the statue build in 1976

Would this effect his foreign relations anymore than his praising of Hitler

What would happen to the statue over the years

Would it be a tourist attraction
 
well the Israelis were going to Entebbe anyway they might pay it a visit on the way home
I can see this happen and they leave several pounds of plastic explosives as a tribute to it.

Other than this, I think the most likely scenario is Amin is no longer portrayed as a clown by the international media but rather as a dangerous and destabilizing leader in a very politically unstable region who should possibly (if not probably) be removed from power sooner than later.
 
Would this effect his foreign relations anymore than his praising of Hitler
Probably not significantly without other policy differences to back it up.
What would happen to the statue over the years
Probably falls into neglect and/or gets torn down after he is removed from power.
Would it be a tourist attraction
Probably some people would seek it out, but I don't imagine it would draw a whole lot of people.
 
Hardly anyone outside this site knows of Emperor Bokassa I or his glorious reign of the Central African Empire, so I doubt that such a statue built by Idi Amin would get anything more a paragraph's mention in the Ugandan chapter of Robert Young Pelton's World's Most Dangerous Places.
 
it wouldn't be that big a deal, but to a few western foreigners who knew about. look what they have in Thailand there is a Hitler fried chicken restaurant.
 

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It is claimed that Idi amin once intended to a build a statue of Hitler in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. Say he goes through with it and has the statue build in 1976

Why would he do that? I mean, did he think Adolf was enamored of dark skinned Africans??

Would this effect his foreign relations anymore than his praising of Hitler

If it were publicized, Uganda would be isolated. The USSR might pressure Libya to cease support for Amin.

What would happen to the statue over the years

It would accelerate the fall of Amin and go with him.
 
A statue of Hitler is the sort of thing that enemy propagandists cook up in order to demonize your country, so if Amin did do that, he'd basically be handing the British, the Israelis, the Tanzanians, or any other interested parties an anti-Uganda horror story, gift-wrapped on a silver platter.

Which maybe was his point? My guess is that he was personally indifferent to Hitler, but knew the guy was hated by the UK and Israel, and for some reason figured it in his strategic advantage to antagonize them. I don't think building the statue would have made the Brits or Israel more likely to intervene. The only likely effect would have been that when Tanzania finally decided they'd had enough of his antics, Nyerere would say "Oh, by the way, he's got a statue of Hitler, too" in order to rally international opinion.
 
I think quite a few commentators would note the irony of a black man building a monument to one of the most infamous white supremacists in history. Should the statue survive the fighting during the Fall of Kampala, I imagine it would be subsequently demolished.
 
[ ATL where Amin gets hold of a copy of "Black Panther" comics. This leads to an epically bad propaganda film, opening with Amin standing in mouth of matte-painted Mount Hitler. The whole losing-his-powers arc will of course not be there, just the good parts where his stunt double beats people up. "Uganda Forever!" ]
 
There is a goeringstrasse in namibia......yea its named after his father who was a colonial administrator there.....but.....ya know
 
It is claimed that Idi amin once intended to a build a statue of Hitler in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. Say he goes through with it and has the statue build in 1976
I would say that this statue would probably be as well-known as Idi Amin's fellow crazy African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa being a Napoleon-worshipper who crowned himself Emperor of the Central African Empire on the 173th anniversary of his idol's coronation, which blew 1/3rds of his country's total GDP, practically bankrupting his impoverished nation. Basically it would be seen as just another example of "crazy African dictators doing crazy stuff".
 
Idi Amin expelled the Ugandan Asians for economically motivated reasons, he wanted to redistribute their businesses and assets among the black majority, and saw the Ugandan Asians as a some kind of hostile 5th column that was exploiting Africans. There are parallels between Amin's expulsion of Ugandan Asians and the depressingly frequent expulsions of Jews in medieval and early modern Europe.
 
I would say that this statue would probably be as well-known as Idi Amin's fellow crazy African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa being a Napoleon-worshipper who crowned himself Emperor of the Central African Empire on the 173th anniversary of his idol's coronation, which blew 1/3rds of his country's total GDP, practically bankrupting his impoverished nation. Basically it would be seen as just another example of "crazy African dictators doing crazy stuff".
There would be 4chan memes posthumously celebrating Idi Amin, but that's the only difference I see happening from OTL.
 
I won't be surprised if Amon would have commissioned North Koreans to do the project, because, who else would dare to accept this kind of commission?
 
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