“We cannot capitulate to the Russian Federation” - Ukrainian deputies decommunized Bohdan Khmelnitsky
Deputies of the Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky City Council decided to rename the city, removing the name of the Little Russian Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky from its name.
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This is reported on the City Council website. 22 deputies voted in support of this decision, 2 were “against”, 2 abstained and 2 did not participate in the voting. 7 deputies were absent from the meeting.
“On October 12, 1943, by a resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the city of Pereyaslav was renamed Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, which led not only to the distortion of its historical name, but also to the devaluation of the city’s role in processes, the creation of a modern Ukrainian nation, is stated in the document justifying the renaming. – During the Second World War, having renamed our city, the ideologists of Stalinism sought to uproot the tree of its thousand-year history and replant it in an artificial pot of the 1943 model.
The whole insidiousness of the colonial policy of the “big brother” was that by adding to the name of our city the glorious name of the leader of the national liberation revolution of the Ukrainian people of 1648-1657. Bogdan Khmelnitsky, they sought to forever “cut off” Pereyaslav from the state historical origins of the times of Kievan Rus, losing it in a huge labyrinth of provincial towns, mentioned only in connection with the anniversary of the falsified treaty on the “reunification of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples.”
According to the deputies, maintaining the old name “in the conditions of the hybrid war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine” will mean “historical, ideological, value capitulation to Russian imperial neocolonialism both on the scale of our small homeland and Ukraine as a whole.”
Now the question of the final renaming will be raised before the Kyiv Regional Council.
Ukrainian media draw attention to the fact that this is not the first attempt to rename the city, but in 2000 this initiative was blocked by the then influential Communist Party of Ukraine, which was virtually destroyed after the victory of the Maidan workers.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, in Kyiv they proposed demolishing the monument to Bohdan Khmelnitsky and erect a monument to “fighters for independence” in its place.
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