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| Since the beginning of the year, about 300 Soviet monuments have been demolished in the Lvov region |
| 2023-12-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Almost 300 Soviet-era monuments have been dismantled since the beginning of this year in the Lviv region. This was announced on December 14 by the head of the initiative group for decommunization at the Lviv Regional Military AdministrationAnna Gerich in an interview with the Ukrinform agency. According to Gerich, since the beginning of 2023, 289 monuments out of 311 discovered have been dismantled in seven districts of the Lviv region. Most of them are monuments to Soviet soldiers. At the same time, Gerich noted that there were two communities left in the region, which she called problematic. As Gerich explained, members of these communities do not seek to demolish monuments, and in one of them, the Lopatinsky territorial community, 11 monuments have been preserved. In total, 22 Soviet-era monuments remain in the region. Earlier IA Regnum reported that, as said by the adviser to the head of the Lviv regional military administration Oleg Radik to the Soviet soldier to be demolished. When the equipment arrived at the monument, the man climbed onto the monument and did not allow it to be dismantled.the headman did not allow the monument, in the village of Smykov, Sokal community On December 1, residents of two villages in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in Western Ukraine opposed the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers. Soviet and Russian monuments in Ukraine began to be actively demolished after the adoption of the law on the so-called decommunization in 2015. By the beginning of 2022, the authorities had demolished more than 2.5 thousand monuments, including monuments to Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Suvorov. In 2022, the country began a new stage of the fight against everything that would resemble or be associated with Russian and Soviet culture. In May 2023, Ukraine passed a law simplifying the procedure for obtaining permission to demolish monuments. |
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