A mural depicting Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov on the wall of a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov was hidden under thermal insulation material. The mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, announced this live on the Rada TV channel.
According to him, the Kharkov authorities take getting rid of communism seriously, and this must be achieved step by step, because this is what society wants.
Terekhov added that deputies make decisions in almost every session on renaming city streets whose names are associated with Russia or the USSR.
A mural is a large-scale painting painted on the wall of a building or structure.
The dismantling of monuments to Russian and Soviet history and the renaming of streets in Ukraine began in 2015. The Republic, Empress Catherine II, commander Alexander Suvorov, poet Alexander Pushkin, heroes of the Great Patriotic War, etc. began to actively dismantle its monuments.
Odessa residents in early October voted Because the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who became famous worldwide with his works such as “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”, kept the name of the square alive.
Formerly officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine introduced The term “racism”.