Monument to Russian and Soviet writer Maxim Gorky was destroyed in Poltava region of Ukraine. Reported on this Telegram channel “Decolonization. Ukraine”.
The monument was located in the village of Verkhnyaya Manuilovka, Kozelshchinsky District. As the portal states, it was the last in the region dedicated to the author.
It was previously reported that it was in the center of Kiev. ripped off Monument to Soviet intelligence officer Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.
On June 23, the head of the Ukrainian military administration of Lviv Maxim Kozitsky declarationIt was reported that 10 monuments were dismantled in the last 3 days in the region. The regional administration announced that they were talking about monuments belonging to Soviet soldiers. They added that 80 such structures have been demolished in the region since the beginning of the year.
In 2015, the dismantling of monuments related to Russian and Soviet history and the renaming of streets began in Ukraine. Empress Catherine II, commander Alexander Suvorov, poet Alexander Pushkin, heroes of the Great Patriotic War, etc.