German City Accepts Karl Marx Statue From China, But Not Everyone's Happy
Trier, the birthplace of Karl Marx, will display the 20-foot bronze statue, a gift from the communist country. The city receives 150,000 Chinese tourists a year.
The German city of Trier has never been particularly fond of its most famous son, Karl Marx, who helped turn communism into an ideology that changed the course of history.
Conservative and Catholic, the picturesque city on the French border took an ambivalent view of the radical revolutionary, born
