When he was alive, Chairman Mao — aka Mao Zedong — stood a solid five foot, eleven inches.

In death, however, he sits at a whopping 120 feet — approximately the height of a ten-story building.

That’s because a new statue of him is being built in China’s countryside (farmland in Tongxu county, Henan province), and it’s covered in gold.

According to the BBC, the humungous effigy of the late leader cost $460,000 to build, and was paid for by local businessmen and even some villagers who, strangely, are descendants of those who suffered and died as a result of a famine precipitated by the communist despot’s crappy policies.

UPDATED: The statue has already been removed by the government.

Their reason? It wasn’t “approved”.