A 121-foot-tall golden statue of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong wasn't long for this world: days after its unveiling, it has been partially destroyed. The public widely denounced the pricey statue.

A man looks at a giant statue of late chairman Mao Zedong under construction near fields in a village of Tongxu county, Henan province, China, Jan. 4, 2016.

The statue in Henan province, which cost about £313,000 to build, has been destroyed just days after Twitter users joked that Mao Zedong appeared to be sitting on the toilet.

A 121-foot-high statue of Mao Zedong mysteriously cropped up in a remote field in China's central Henan province, as we reported this week. But it seems the homage to the founder of Communist ...

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A crane is seen next to a giant statue of China's late chairman, Mao Zedong, under construction near crop fields in a village of Tongxu county, Henan province, China, Jan. 4, 2016.

A giant gold-painted statue of Communist China’s founding father Mao Zedong has reportedly been demolished because it lacked government approval, just days after images of it were widely shared ...

When he was in power, propaganda posters depicted Mao Zedong’s smiling face as “the red sun in the center of our hearts.” In the late 1980s and early ’90s, imbued with a sort of nostalgia ...

Chinese donors reportedly sought to have a statue of Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong constructed beside one of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the University of Montreal.

37-metre-tall golden Chairman Mao statue appears in the Chinese countryside. The statue is in Henan Province, the epicentre of a famine which killed millions partly brought on by Mao's policies ...

A worker pours water onto a statue of Mao Zedong in 2013 at a factory in Shaoshan, Mao's hometown. AP. Thousands of visitors descend on Shaoshan every day.