Re: Well done that man!
"I feel the deliberate destruction of historic artefacts because they do not conform to current thinking is a form of censorship that reveals a fundamental insecurity on the part of the destroyer."
It is the rewriting of history. Not just a revised view based on possibly valid re-interpretations - but falsifying of the original records.
They are proving their allegiance to a group by vociferous support of its shibboleths - which can also be exacerbated by self-doubts about them.