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==Commissioning== The monument was commissioned in 1939 to commemorate the [[1932 Siamese coup d'état]] (also called "Siamese Revolution of 1932" or just "1932 Revolution") which led to the establishment of a [[constitutional monarchy]] in what was then the Kingdom of Siam, by its military ruler, Field Marshal [[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]]. Phibun saw the monument as the focal point of what he envisaged as a new, [[Westernized]] Bangkok, "making Thanon [road] Ratchadamnoen the [[Champs-Élysées]] and the Democracy Monument the [[Arc de Triomphe]]" of Bangkok.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2013039/rewriting-of-thai-history-gets-thumbs-up|title = Rewriting of Thai history gets thumbs-up|newspaper = Bangkok Post}}</ref><ref>Ka F. Wong, ''Visions of a Nation: Public Monuments in Twentieth-Century Thailand'', White Lotus, Bangkok 2006, 65</ref>
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