VMI, the famed Virginia Military Institute that employed Confederate General Stonewall Jackson and played an integral role in America's Civil War, has moved to de-person the General in a Soviet-style purge of the school's Confederate history, going as far as to rip Jackson's name away from his own quotes which emblazon a portion of the school and re-attribute them to someone else.

Efforts to de-person Stonewall Jackson and erase the school's rich Confederate history have been in the works for quite some time, as the publicly funded military school has long been a target of the radical left. Though they had previously been met with resistance, in 2020, as the radical left waged a Soviet-style purge on America's history – particularly in the south – with the help of a new far-left state government installed in Richmond, efforts to snuff out the Confederate history of VMI – and Virginia as a whole – went into overdrive.