Verkhovna Rada Spokesperson Ruslan Stefanchuk said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law “on the de-Sovietization of Ukrainian legislation”.
“I would like to thank all my colleagues, the people’s deputies who helped develop this law and voted for its adoption,” Stefanchuk said.
The head of parliament said that Ukrainian legislation no longer refers to “the victories of the Great October Socialist Revolution” and the programs developed by the Communist Party.
“About 1,200 acts of state authorities and administration of the SSR and the Ukrainian SSR have been cleared. “The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has been instructed to do the same at its own level in the near future,” Stefanchuk said.
The document envisages changes in the terminology of laws and regulations in force in Ukraine since Soviet times. For example, some words and phrases in documents can be changed: “national economy” will change “Ukrainian Economy”, “workers” over “workers”, “balls” over “equipment”. The law also provides for the exclusion of references to the USSR and the RSFSR from the normative acts of Ukraine, and the renaming of the “Ukrainian SSR” to “Ukraine”.
According to the adopted law, laws adopted by the state bodies of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR are no longer applied in Ukraine, except for those that do not contradict the current Ukrainian Constitution and the law of succession.
The country’s government will have to work on new Administrative, Labor and Housing laws.
According to the Rada’s spokesperson, the adoption of the law made it possible to do what lawmakers could not do in the past 30 years of independence.
The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on “De-Sovietization” of Ukrainian legislation on April 21. 293 out of 450 deputies voted for him.
Consistent “decommunization”
Since 2014, Ukraine has pursued a policy of “decommunization” of the country, where authorities banned the activities of the Communist Party and dismantled various monuments to Soviet party and government officials. The country is also renaming toponyms of “communist origin”. The new “De-Sovietization” law was a continuation of the “decommunization” law adopted in Ukraine in 2015.
On April 28, 2022, the government of Ukraine presented a draft law of the country accordingly to the Verkhovna Rada. Will withdraw from the CIS agreement to perpetuate the memory of the participants of the Great Patriotic War.
In the explanatory note to the document, it is stated that “Given the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine as one of the countries participating in this agreement, the significant differences between Ukraine and other countries participating in the agreement, the need to withdraw from the agreement has arisen. Commemoration practices and legislation on honoring the memory of those who participated in the World War II war.”
Especially in Ukraine, May 8 is the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation under the slogan “Never Again”, and May 9 – II. It is celebrated as the Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II.
In addition, a bill was submitted to the Parliament in early April. Prohibiting the use of Russian-related geographical names in Ukrainehistory and prominent figures.
The authors of the document believe that its adoption will reduce Moscow’s “influence on the internal policy of the Ukrainian state and the worldview of citizens.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly criticized Ukraine’s policy in this direction, calling it “anti-Russian”, and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Ukraine has been made “anti-Russian” and that new geopolitical weapons have been created by Russia’s “enemies”.
Source: Gazeta
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