Ukraine’s Minister of Culture, Oleksandr Tkachenko, described the law on the removal of monuments in the country linked to the USSR and Russia as a whole “depuskinization”.
Minister reported On his Telegram channel, he reported that the Verkhovna Rada has registered a bill on the deprivation of state awards of artists recognized as “traitors” to the homeland. According to Tkachenko, the “depushkinization” bill was used as the basis of the document.
“We also took as a basis our draft law on ‘de-embedding’ in terms of the procedure for removing monuments of the Soviet and totalitarian past from the registry for their removal from the public sphere,” wrote the Ukrainian Minister of Culture.
Since 2015, monuments related to Soviet history have been demolished in Ukraine. This happened after the adoption of the decommunization law in the country. Thus, Empress II in the country. Monuments to Katerina, poet Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lomonosov, commander Alexander Suvorov and many others were destroyed. In addition to demolition of monuments, the country is renaming streets “pro-Russian”.
Source: Gazeta
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