Vitaly Levitsky, the headman of the village of Smykov in the Lviv region of Ukraine, who did not allow the demolition of the Soviet military monument, was fired. According to Ukrainian publication Zaxid.Net, the name of his grandfather, who died during the Great Patriotic War, was mentioned on the monument.
According to the publication, the decision to dismiss Levitsky was taken at a meeting of the Sokal City Council. The day after this incident, activists destroyed the monument.
The mayor of the city of Sokal, Sergei Kasyan, told Zaxid.Net that Levitsky submitted his resignation for family reasons, but for the deputies “the last straw was the actions to protect the Soviet monument,” so the deputies almost unanimously supported this decision. It was decided to terminate the headman’s powers early.
“We wanted to resolve this amicably with him… There (under the monument – socialbites.ca) there is actually some kind of burial. However, on the monument it is written: “To the peasants who fell martyrs on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War”… I suggested that he demolish this monument and then complete the (special Russian military operation. – socialbites.ca) Put a cross there,” said Kasyan.
According to him, Levitsky did not accept such an offer.
Before that, residents of two villages in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine spoke Against the demolition of Soviet monuments.
In 2015, Ukrainian authorities passed a decommunization law under which the country began renaming streets and dismantling monuments to Soviet history and Russia.
Putin before accused Zelensky’s cover-up of the glorification of Nazism.