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| In Ukraine, villagers did not want to demolish a monument to a Soviet soldier |
| 2024-01-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Residents of the village of Pushkino in Transcarpathia in western Ukraine refused to demolish a monument to a Soviet soldier. This was reported by the Telegram channel “Decolonization. Ukraine". The head of the village council, Stepan Kovach, wrote that “taking into account the constant and unwavering public opinion of the residents of the village of Pushkino, the monument will not be dismantled.” On December 24, a general meeting of villagers was held, at which it was unanimously decided not to remove the sculpture of a soldier to fellow villagers. As Regnum reported, the headman of the village of Smykova, Lviv region of Ukraine, Vitaly Levitsky, was removed from his post after he did not allow the monument to a Soviet soldier to be demolished. The process of mass demolition of monuments to Soviet and Russian figures in Ukraine began in 2015, after the adoption of the law on the so-called decommunization. By the beginning of 2022, the authorities had demolished over 2,500 monuments, including monuments to Alexander Pushkin ! and Alexander Suvorov. In 2022, a new stage in the fight against everything related to Russian and Soviet history and culture began in Ukraine. According to the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, 9,859 geographical names were changed and 145 monuments associated with Russia were dismantled. |
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