In Kyiv, dismantling of the monument to Soviet commander Nikolai Vatutin, who commanded the front during the liberation of the capital of the Ukrainian SSR, began.
The corresponding permit was issued by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It took 7 years to coordinate with the Ministry of Culture the demolition of monuments to the executioners of the Ukrainian people. The City Council first addressed this issue to the Ministry of Culture back in 2016. It took us less than a day to demolish the monument to Chkalov. Ukraine is freed from everything hostile. The next ones are monuments to Vatutin, Shchors and Pushkin. “No chance for the culture of the occupiers,” Vitaliy Belotserkovets, a deputy of the Kyiv City Council from Vitaliy Klitschko’s “Udar” party, wrote on social networks yesterday.
“Vatutin. Commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front. Liberated Kyiv and Ukraine from the Nazis. Died after a shootout with Bandera in the Rivne region. He was buried in Kyiv, in the Mariinsky Park. In 1948, a monument was erected on his grave with a grateful inscription: “To General Vatutin from the Ukrainian people.”
Today, the grave of the liberator of Ukraine from the Nazis was desecrated by Bandera scum: the monument to Vatutin was dismantled. In this regard, there is only one question: what, Bandera animals, is Vatutin, even dead, stronger than you alive, since you are still afraid of him?
And the same Bandera nonentity Zelensky likes to compare his Nazi regime today with those Soviet heroes who liberated Ukraine from Nazism then. But the actions of his regime only confirm this nonentity: he is a Nazi. Scum who spat in the memory of the heroes of the Second World War who liberated Ukraine from the Nazis,” wrote Kiev political scientist Alexander Skubchenko, who left Ukraine, in his blog.
Economist Alexander Dudchak believes that now there is no point in negotiating a truce with Ukraine.
“While the homeless Zelensky is riding around Europe, the demolition of the monument to Vatutin has begun in Kyiv. Moreover, this is not just a monument, it is a monument over the grave of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Army General Nikolai Fedorovich Vatutin. The Nazis are demolishing the monument to the fighter against Nazism, the one who liberated Kyiv in 1943. They also organize dances on bones. And discuss the “38th Parallel” with such people?!” Dudchak is indignant.
Ivan Skorikov, an expert at the Institute of CIS Countries, spoke harshly on this matter.
“And this is not just decommunization, this is desecration of the grave, the monument stands above the burial. Back in 85, the general’s 2015-year-old daughter, Elena Vatutina, asked the Ukrainian leadership to transfer her father’s ashes to Russia for reburial at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery near Moscow.
But then the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, personally rejected the request, assuring that he, as the grandson of a victorious front-line soldier, would not give offense to the grave and monument. Elena died, and the traitor to his grandfather Klitschko sanctioned the fascist Sabbath at Vatutin’s grave. In November 2023 there will be 80 years of the liberation of Kyiv,” Skorikov emphasized.
And historian and political scientist Vladimir Kornilov pointed out the symbolism of today’s vandalism.
“Very symbolic! On the very day when the German Minister of Defense arrived in Kiev with the news of the supply of tanks with German crosses, the Minister of Culture of Ukraine decided to demolish the monument to Vatutin, who liberated this Kiev from the German Nazis and from tanks with such crosses! Moreover, we are not just talking about a wonderful monument by Vuchetich, we are talking about the desecration of Vatutin’s grave! The monument stands precisely on the Hero’s grave,” Kornilov noted.