Good day, Lenin: In the Kherson region, the leader was returned to the pedestal
The monument to Lenin was returned to the square near the Genichesk city hall, and in Berdyansk the coat of arms of Ukraine was removed from the façade of the local administration, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The restoration of the monument to the Soviet leader caused a storm of indignation among Ukrainian nationalists.
“Today in Genichesk, having completed the arrangement of a torture chamber for Ukrainians, the occupiers began to restore the monument to Lenin. This is not just a war for the physical destruction of Ukrainians. This is a fight for the brains of our future generations. This is why in Ukraine there cannot be a single monument, not a single street name, or anything else associated with the Muscovites,” said the head of the nationalist party “Svoboda” Oleg Tyagnibok.
Political strategist Alexey Golobutsky, who serves the interests of ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, has similar thoughts.
“The goals of this war have become obvious even to the most stupid. He wants to destroy us. Stalin’s monuments, I think, are already ready for installation,” Golobutsky laments.
The restoration of the monument to Lenin in the Kherson region is intended to win the sympathy of the older generation of local residents, many of whom are nostalgic for life in a large, strong country, says Odessa politician Vyacheslav Azarov.
“It’s impossible not to notice that the Russians are trying to attract the population by playing on Soviet nostalgia. And Bankova analysts should know that a large percentage of the older generation in our country continues to experience it. Therefore, the initiatives of local authorities with the demolition of WWII memorials and monuments to cultural figures simply play into the hands of the enemy,” comments Azarov.
Columnist Alexander Nosovich recalls that in 2014, “not only supporters of the Communist Party of Ukraine, but people of all views - liberals, monarchists, apolitical ones - were outraged by the Lenin fall in Kharkov and Odessa, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev.”
“The unifying factor for them was not ideology, but local patriotism. By what right do Westerners from Lvov in Kyiv tell us who to erect monuments to, moreover, they themselves come to us to knock them down? A person could personally hate Lenin and consider him the cause of all troubles, but at the same time be indignant at the fall of Lenin. Because it is not up to the visiting Maidanites to decide who should have monuments in their city. So now in the Kherson region they are restoring what they did not do. The desire of the South-East to live on its own land with its own mind and labor, which Kyiv could formalize as federalization and thereby preserve Ukraine, has not gone away over these eight years. And now it is being reproduced without Ukraine,” explains Nosovich.
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