Humiliation is not new, the Romans knocked noses and ears off of statues.

The Khmer Rouge, the most outright genocidal communist government to exist, did things like this, planned on doing it more, and would have continued to do so. As did Mao.

In the examples above, they did this because they believed they had already conquered the land and were safe in doing so.

The statue of Lee being melted down and the response shows this is not conquered land.

Edit: I brought the Khmer Rouge because they are never talked about. Many of the leaders went free. Peak communism/what we call woke today: "victim of a land mine, maybe retarded, child age 11? Yes, you go to power plant 002. You are now head of department."