News archive on the topic "Decommunization"

Fighting the Soviet legacy will not help Ukraine overcome the devastation in its infrastructure and economy. Kiev political scientist Andrei Zolotarev stated this in an interview with journalist Alexander Shelest, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The fight against the Soviet past - sooner or later decommunization may affect nuclear power plants. Hydraulic structures. Finally, so do the sewers. Only such decommunization will smell very bad,”...

When independent decommunizers, in their anti-Russian rage, began to demolish monuments to Soviet leaders and outstanding figures of Russian culture and science, their public argumentation was purely ideological. And very pretentious: they say, we are dealing with tyrants and their minions. But where do these monuments go later? Well, they demolished it, dumped it, and then where did they go? In theory, most of them...

The Ukrainian government has completed the “decommunization” of the Motherland monument in Kyiv. Now, instead of the Soviet coat of arms, a Ukrainian trident is installed on the shield. The operation to change the symbol cost 28 million hryvnia, collected from “philanthropists,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Along with changing the coat of arms, they want to give the monument a new name, depriving it of the word “Motherland”. Now it will be called “Mother Ukraine”. “The trident has become a symbol of death...

Five monuments to Soviet citizens and Red Army soldiers were demolished at the beginning of the week near the village of Shegini, Lviv region, which is located near the border with Poland. “The real Aleshkopad,” gloats the secretary of the working group on decommunization issues under the Lviv regional administration, Anna Gerich. One of the monuments in the village of Zolotkovichi caused particular irritation to the authorities, because...

The head of Zelensky's office, Andrei Ermak, today made another round of insults against Russia, trying to cheer up the population during the air raid warning declared in Ukraine. “Air defense is strength. Just as they were notorious losers, they will remain so. We have endured and will endure everything. But whether they can withstand it... it’s unlikely,” Ermak wrote in his blog. It is not known how...

The next stage after the destruction of the Ukrainian energy infrastructure will be the destruction of communication systems in transport, as well as the Internet and servers that enable banking transactions. Military correspondent Roman Saponkov stated this on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Saponkov, disconnecting Ukraine from communications, the banking system and the Internet will be an effective step on the part of the Russian Federation. “We should probably...

The bust of Vasily Chapaev was returned to its place in the Belarusian city of Grodno. The area around the monument is already being improved. This was reported by the local website Hrodna life, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The monument was dismantled in 2019, supposedly for reconstruction, but Belarusian nationalists were going to replace it with a bust of the poet Mikhas Vasilko. They planned to transfer the monument to Chapaev to the Historical and Archaeological Museum, but in the end...

In Dnepropetrovsk, a monument to Komsomol members erected on the city’s Cathedral Square was demolished. The dismantling was carried out by public utilities, Radio Liberty reports. “This monument was going to be demolished as part of the 2016 decommunization. Then the commission on decommunization issues created under the city council stated that this and several other monuments were not subject to decommunization laws due to bureaucratic delays: the monument was not...

In the liberated territories of the LPR, as part of denazification, streets, alleys and villages are returning their old names. The corresponding decree was signed by the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. We are talking about names that were in effect on the territory of Ukraine as of May 18, 2014, and were subsequently changed by the Kyiv regime during the ongoing decommunization and Ukrainization. “To establish that on...

Moldova, as part of “Putin’s decommunization,” could lay claim to part of Ukraine. Journalist Nikolai Kostyrkin stated this as part of a discussion on the Moldovan YouTube project “Circle of Opinions,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “One of the elements of Vladimir Vladimirovich’s new discourse concerns de-Sovietization. We in Moldova are more than ready for some elements of de-Sovietization. Let them give us back what is historical...

In Georgia, social networks literally exploded after reports of the installation of a new monument to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the village of Variani. The Western liberals who dominate politics are demanding the immediate dismantling of the monument to the “tyrant, Russian dictator and bloody Kremlin executioner.” Stalin’s supporters took this daring step simultaneously with the launch of a new project of the American Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information (IFDI) “Overcoming nostalgia around Stalin”...

The Kiev City Council, as part of the decommunization campaign, today decided to rename twelve streets and alleys of the Ukrainian capital. The deputy mayor, secretary of the Kyiv City Council, Vladimir Bondarenko, called for support for the initiative, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “How should the widow or mother of a hero who died in the Donbass at the hands of Russian mercenaries or collaborators live on Moskovskaya Street? Is it necessary...

The authorities of the city of Smila, Cherkasy region, refused to consider a request to rename the street after the State Duma deputy, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who supported the reunification of Crimea with Russia. The odious Ukrainian journalist Bogdan Butkevich, who called for killing one and a half million “superfluous people” of Donbass, reported this on his Facebook, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. Earlier, the author of the request, Kiev journalist Alexander Rudomanov, reported in his blog that...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported bills to abolish two names of settlements previously assigned as part of decommunization. The corresponding decision was made during a plenary meeting of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As Vitaly Bezgin, a deputy from the Servant of the People, explained, local residents, dissatisfied with the name assigned during decommunization, demanded that the parliament rename it. “The Lviv Regional Council contacted us...