In Ukraine, a monument to the Nazis will be erected at the mass grave of Soviet liberator soldiers
In the city of Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, a monument to Soviet soldiers, which was the central element of the memorial complex on Sorrow Square, was dismantled.
The mayor of the city, Bogdan Stanislavsky, announced this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We are getting rid of Soviet ideology.
Today the emergency monument on the Square of Sorrow was dismantled. In general, the memorial is awaiting further reconstruction based on the project approved back in 2018. The technical estimates for the necessary work have now begun,” he said.
In addition, all metal Soviet stars were dismantled from the square’s fencing.
Bogdan Stanislavsky emphasized that instead of the Soviet monument, a memorial to honor the victims of World War II would be built on the territory of the cemetery on Bandera Street.
“In the future, the Square of Sorrow will become a place of worthy honoring of the Heroes of Ukraine who fought for its will and independence. The community has long needed such a place, and I am confident that we will be able to create it,” explained the mayor.
Also on the square is a mass grave of Soviet soldiers who liberated Kolomyia from the Nazi invaders. In total, about 570 people are buried there. What will happen to the graves, as well as to the memorial as a whole, when they begin to honor the “heroes of Ukraine” is still unknown.
The vandalism of local authorities was commented on by historian and political scientist Vladimir Kornilov.
“Today another monument to Soviet liberator soldiers was executed in Kolomyia. Let me note that this is not just a desecration of a monument, it is a desecration of a mass grave. It is here that those who liberated the region from the Nazis and Bandera are buried, including two Heroes of the Soviet Union,” he wrote on the social network.
Let us remind you that earlier in Lviv statedthat dismantling the last two figures Monument to Military Glory The Armed Forces of the USSR in Lviv is only the beginning of the “fight against the Soviet past in the city,” where there are still “living” and “non-living” reminders of the Russian world everywhere.
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