Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
Note: Hetman (or Getman) Petlura is a reference to Symon Petliura, Ukrainian army commander during the Russian Civil War.
Shchors is a reference to Mykola Shchors, Ukrainian communist and formation commander during the Russian Civil War
[ColonelCassad] In Kyiv today the monument to Shchors was demolished.
Below is one of the reasons for the hatred of Shchors on the part of the Ukrainian Nazis.
RESPONSE TO PAN HETMAN PETLURA FROM SHCHORS BOZHENKO AND OTHER COMMANDERS
We, Tarashchanians, Bohuntsy and other Ukrainians, Cossacks, Red Army soldiers, received your obscene appeal.
Like the Cossacks of old to the Sultan, so we answer you.
We had Hetman Skoropadsky, sitting on German bayonets. He died, damn it.
But then a new hetman showed up - Petliura.
He sold his homeland, his mother, he sold the poor people.
Tell me, Judas, how many pennies did you sell Ukraine for?
How much do you pay your hirelings to stir up the villagers with the tongue of a dog, to raise them against the power of the working poor?
Tell me, Judas, tell me, traitor, just know, don’t panam any more in Ukraine.
We - her sons, poor workers - will lay down our heads, and we will defend her, so that rye will bloom in freedom on her free land and be harvested by the free villagers for their own benefit, and not by the greedy robbers, bloodsuckers - kulaks and landowners.
Yes, we are brothers of the Russian workers and peasantry, like brothers to everyone who fights for the liberation of the working people.
I won't wear your pants until this summer.
We already crushed your sides under Korosten, Berdychev, Proskurov. Your allies have already left Odessa.
Free Hungary stretches out fraternal hands to us, and the hands of the robbed peasants of Poland and Galicia reach out to your throat,
Judas!
Get out of the loop, you damned one! Choke, dog!
In the name of the Cossack peasants of Ukraine, army commanders Shchors, Bozhenko and others,
1919
About the dismantling of the Shchors statue, more from regnum.ru
In Kyiv, the demolition of the monument to Shchors took several hours because of the horse
In Kiev, a monument to the Civil War commander Nikolai Shchors was dismantled ; to do this, his horse’s hooves had to be sawed off, the Ukrainian publication “Country” reported on December 9. ua".
“During the dismantling process, it turned out that the horse’s hooves could not be removed from the cement. Therefore, they decided to saw off the hooves,” says a message published on the publication’s Telegram channel.
The dismantling of the Shchors monument, which was located in the center of the Ukrainian capital, began on the morning of December 9. Before this, the monument’s protective status was removed; in the future it will be stored in the State Aviation Museum of Ukraine named after O.K. Antonov.
As Regnum reported , in Kiev, as part of the so-called large-scale campaign of “derussification” and “desovetization,” it is planned to demolish 296 objects associated with the USSR or Russia: these are 95 monuments and 201 boards or decoration elements.
In addition, in July, the Kiev City Council banned the public performance of songs and the reading of books in Russian in the city. The ban applies to the distribution of books, art albums, audiovisual works, musical recordings, arts and crafts, theatrical and circus performances, concerts and services.
The process of mass demolition of monuments in Ukraine began in 2015, when the country adopted a law on “decommunization.” At first, the Soviet heritage was attacked, and over time, monuments to Russian political figures and cultural figures began to be demolished in the country.
By the beginning of 2022, more than 2,500 monuments had been demolished in Ukraine, including monuments to Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Suvorov . The names of more than 900 settlements and about 50,000 streets were also changed.