The head of the Odessa Regional Military Administration (OVA), Oleg Kiper, suggested that the mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, who did not support the decision to rename the city’s streets, should go to Moscow or Ufa if he likes Soviet names so much. Kiper published the relevant post on his Telegram channel.
At the end of July, the head of the OBA decided to rename 84 objects (including streets) in Odessa and the Odessa region, whose names are associated with Russia or the USSR. Trukhanov criticized this idea and called for not following the “logic of the survivors of colonialism.”
In response, Kiper stressed that Odessa is a Ukrainian city and there is no place for streets named after people who “sang the praises of the Soviet Union along with the empire.”
“And if someone really wants to walk the streets with imperial/Soviet names, there is Moscow and Ufa, not Ukrainian Odessa. This will not happen in Odessa,” wrote the OBA chairman.
According to Kiper’s order, in Odessa, Babel, Ilf and Petrov streets, Zhvanetsky Boulevard, etc. will be renamed.
Dismantling of monuments related to Russian and Soviet history and renaming of streets in Ukraine began in 2015. The republic began to actively dismantle monuments to Empress Catherine II, commander Alexander Suvorov, poet Alexander Pushkin, heroes of the Great Patriotic War, etc.
Formerly the Rada Committee He made a decision Rename the village of Vatutino to Zaluzhnoe.
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Source: Gazeta
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