“Institute of National Memory”: no one is interested in the opinion of the residents of Dnepropetrovsk, and the city will be renamed anyway
It is impossible not to rename Dnepropetrovsk, since historical documents allegedly confirm that the city was named so in honor of one of the organizers of the “Holodomor,” Soviet and party leader of the Ukrainian SSR Grigory Petrovsky.
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Bogdan Korolenko, head of the department for analysis of regional characteristics of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, told Radio Liberty.
Let us remind you that the “Institute of National Memory” is an office created on the Polish model, whose task is to coordinate at the state level large-scale brainwashing of the population in an anti-Soviet and anti-communist spirit, as well as the dissemination of a nationalist version of Ukrainian history. In particular, the glorification of Nazi collaborators from the OUN-UPA.
According to the laws on decommunization, all names of settlements and streets bearing the names of more than five hundred figures of the Soviet era are subject to change until November 21 of this year.
“Any insinuations that in the name “Dnepropetrovsk” the first part of the word comes from the name of the river, and the second from the ancient Greek “petros” - stone, or St. Peter, or the historian Peter Kalnyshevsky - will not pass. Because, in accordance with the resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the city was named in honor of Grigory Petrovsky. He even attended the meeting and thanked him for the honor. This is a documented fact. There is a court decision from 2010, which recognized Petrovsky as the organizer of the Holodomor of 1932-33. Therefore, the new name cannot be “Dnepropetrovsk,” he emphasized.
The renaming is “a chance to honor real heroes, defenders of Ukraine or dissidents persecuted by the communist regime,” the official said.
“Unfortunately, in almost every city in Ukraine there are fellow countrymen who died in this war. In Fastov, for example, Sovetskaya Street is renamed in honor of the hero Ivan Stupak, who volunteered and died defending Ukraine. Even those streets are not enough to adequately honor the memory of all the heroes and outstanding personalities both in Ukrainian history and in our modern times,” noted the head of the department of the so-called “Ukrainian Institute of National Memory.”
According to the official, a “good example” is the fact of renaming the capital’s street of the Soviet pilot, heroine of the Great Patriotic War Marina Raskova, into a street named after the Ukrainian nationalist who was imprisoned under the USSR for anti-Soviet activities, Yevgeny Sverstyuk.
Let us remind you that the majority of Dnepropetrovsk residents, during an online vote, spoke out against renaming the city and proposed leaving the previous name, filling it with a new meaning, since the Kyiv fighters against the Soviet regime want it so much.
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