A monument to Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov is being dismantled in the Ukrainian capital. This was stated by Dmitry Belotserkovets, an adviser to the Kyiv mayor and deputy of the Kyiv City Council, on his Facebook account (the owner of Meta was considered extremist and banned in Russia).
“The Chkalov monument will be dismantled in Kiev,” he wrote.
According to the deputy, currently the profiler commission within the country’s Ministry of Culture is deciding whether it is necessary to demolish the monument to Soviet General Nikolai Vatutin.
It was learned that he was in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro before. rip off Monument to Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov.
before there ripped off Monuments to the author Maxim Gorky, Heroes of the USSR General Efim Pushkin and Red Army soldier Alexander Matrosov.
Also in Dnipro removed memorial tank T-34.
Since 2015, when the law on social distancing was passed in Ukraine, monuments connected with Soviet history have been dismantled. Place names are also changed in the country and monuments associated with Russia are destroyed. Thus, a monument to Empress Catherine and the commander Alexander Suvorov was dismantled in Odessa.
Source: Gazeta
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