Although the iconoclastic madness in the old continent has not reached the levels of the United States, Europe has also suffered the activity of modern censors who want to erase and rewrite history by demolishing statues and monuments. Italy was hit by the iconoclastic movement as they targeted a statue dedicated to the most important Italian conservative journalist, Indro Montanelli, in Milan.

They smeared it with red paint and covered it with insulting words. Montanelli was accused of being a racist and even a pedophile after marrying a young girl in Africa during the Italian colonial period. The smeared statue of Montanelli shook Italian public opinion because in the seventies the journalist had been the victim of an attack by the Communist terrorist group of the Red Brigades, who shot him in the legs.