Decommunization in Berdyansk style: Lenin was remade into a Cossack colonel - with a mustache and an embroidered shirt
In Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region, the bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky, which stood in front of the administrative building of the local correctional colony, was converted into a bust of the Cossack colonel of the Khmelnytskyi era, Maxim Krivonos.
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About it local publication ProBerdyansk reports, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“After decommunization, all monuments to this figure on the territory of Ukraine were subject to demolition. However, in the Berdyansk correctional colony they decided “not to let the good things go to waste” and redesigned the monument. As a result, Dzerzhinsky became Maxim Krivonos, as evidenced by the plaque on the stele,” the publication writes.
The monument was given a mustache and forelock, and was also “dressed” in an embroidered shirt, the publication reports.
Maxim Krivonos is a Ukrainian military leader, Cossack leader, one of the leaders of the Cossack-peasant uprisings during the Khmelnytskyi region, one of the closest associates of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. In 1648, he was the appointed hetman of four regiments: Lisyansky, Korsunsky, Belotserkovsky and Umansky.
This is not the first attempt to “redesign” monuments in Ukraine. Thus, earlier in the same Zaporozhye region, a monument to Lenin was turned into a monument to Hetman Pylyp Orlik.
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