“Kutuzov burned Moscow!” – in Kyiv they remembered the feat of the field marshal
The former mayor of Kyiv, Alexander Omelchenko, claims that he tried to prevent the renaming as part of a campaign to “decommunize” Kutuzov Street, citing the fact that the field marshal allowed Moscow to burn during the Napoleonic War. “There was such a case, deputies sat down, and the radicals said that Kutuzov should [be renamed]. And I say: “Why Kutuzova? He burned Moscow, no need...