In Irpen, a satellite city of Kyiv, after reconstruction, Soviet symbols were removed from the monument erected in honor of the workers of the Buchansky Brick Factory (BKZ) who died during the Great Patriotic War.
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In April of this year, PolitNaivgator, citing blogger Andrei Selezov, reported that this monument was demolished in Irpen.
However, local authorities assured that we are only talking about reconstruction of the adjacent territory, after which the monument will be returned to its place.
In the summer, the monument was indeed returned to almost its original place, only moved a few meters to the side, although in a new form.
If one of the elements of the previous architectural ensemble was the Order of the Great Patriotic War (in the picture above), then in the new version it disappeared.
Only two plaques remain from the previous monument: one indicating in whose honor the monument was erected, the second a list of fallen BKZ workers.
Let us recall that the Verkhovna Rada adopted the so-called decommunization law, according to which a ban on the use of Soviet symbols is introduced in Ukraine. Also, the Ukrainian parliament removed the term “Great Patriotic War” from official use, repealing the law “On the perpetuation of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, replacing it with the law “On the perpetuation of the victory over Nazism in the Second World War of 1939-1945”.