Zhukov landfill
“In Kharkov, the monument to the Soviet commander Marshal Zhukov was dismantled. According to the leader of the Kharkiv National Corps Konstantin Nemichev, this was done by the Kraken special unit. Kraken is a subdivision of the Azov Regiment. Nemichev is his commander,” Strana said on Sunday.
A video of the destruction of the monument was posted on the Internet. In the footage, the truck pulls the bust of Zhukov attached to it from the pedestal. Then he took the monument to the landfill.
The 94-year-old daughter of the USSR Marshal Georgy Zhukov Era commented on the demolition of the monument to the Shot Telegram channel.
“Everything is terrible except anger, nothing can happen. This is a kind of inhuman attitude towards the personality of a person who gives everything for victories, for peace and tranquility in the world. For the father, in memory of Marshal Zhukov, this, of course, is a very difficult loss … Time passes, somehow people already forget everything: people, events … I think all this will come back and haunt them,” he said.
Kharkov administration investigating conditions of monument demolition, reports TASS“Public” with reference to the Ukrainian publication.
“Everything happened instantly, around 11:00. Two military vehicles approached. They removed the bust, took everything in one place. Now everything is quiet, we are handling it, ”said Tatyana Topchiy, head of the administration of the Nemyshlyansky district.
The Destruction of Alexander Pushkins
In early April, monuments to the Russian classic Alexander Pushkin were dismantled in Ternopil, Mukachevo and Uzhgorod.
“This initiative has been discussed for years. Uzhgorod Mayor Sergei Nadal said on his Telegram channel that Pushkin, like most Russian writers, composers and others, had nothing to do with Ternopil.
The city council added that the decision to dismiss was taken at an “extraordinary meeting of lawmakers” on April 10. They are considering deleting the name of the classic from the street names of the city.
street renaming
Uzhgorod deputies Wrote He reported on his Telegram channel that they found 58 streets in the city associated with Russian figures that needed to be renamed. At the next meeting on April 22, the city council decided to analyze the changes in the framework of communism and prepare proposals for new names in the historical district of Maly Galagov.
City officials have released a list of streets to be renamed. Classics of world literature such as Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Lermontov and Ivan Turgenev, and painter Vasily Surikov fell out of favor with the Uzhgorod parliamentarians. Scientists Dmitry Mendeleev, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Mikhail Lomonosov also received it. Also, the composer Modest Mussorgsky will soon disappear from the names of the streets of the city, Pyotr Tchaikovsky will be “forgotten”. There is no place left in Uzhgorod for the first Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and military fighter pilot Hero of the USSR Alexei Maresyev.
Mayor Andriy Sadovoy, in turn, said that the Lviv authorities had decided to rename only 30 “Russian” streets by May 7. The names are now being analyzed by a special commission led by the city’s first vice-president.
“We have a tradition of giving new names on City Day in May,” Sadovoy said, as quoted by RBC.
And in Ivano-Frankivsk, more than 20 streets named after Russian writers, composers and scientists have already been renamed.
On April 15, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced similar plans to rename streets, avenues and stations whose names are associated with Russia. He also proposed renaming the square, which had previously been unofficially called the square of friendship between Kyiv and Moscow.
“I submitted a draft resolution to rename the old square of friendship between Kyiv and Moscow to the square of the heroes of Mariupol. Deputies also supported such an initiative,” he said. given The words of Klitschko on the Telegram channel.
According to him, the monument of friendship between cities was dismantled in 2021. The mayor said that in Kiev there are dozens of streets and objects that, in his opinion, need to be renamed. All changes are scheduled to be adopted in one package by May 9.
demolition of monuments
In Ukraine, four laws “on the condemnation of communist and Nazi regimes” came into force in May 2015, specifically banning the propaganda of Soviet symbols. It was then that the country began to tear down monuments related to the Soviet past.
But since the start of Russia’s military special operations, the number of dismantled monuments and renaming of streets has increased significantly.
So, on April 12, in the city of Stryi in the Lviv region, a monument to the Soviet soldier liberator was destroyed. Stella was lowered down with the help of special equipment, wrapped in a steel rod. Everything that happened was filmed on video.
On April 14, RIA Novosti reported that a monument to Soviet pilots had been dismantled in Ternopil.
“In Ternopil, an emergency plane was dismantled in the East array. The city’s mayor, Serhiy Nadal, wrote on Facebook (the company that owns Meta is considered an extremist organisation).
And in Mukachevo in the Transcarpathian region, a monument to a Soviet tank was dismantled. In Zdolbuniv, a city in the Rivne region, a monument was demolished in honor of the Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Prikhodko, who was born there.
Source: Gazeta
