Ukraine intends to equate Catherine II with the Nazis
The monument to the Russian Empress Catherine II, installed in Odessa, will be moved to a specially created “museum of occupation”.
The head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Anton Drobovich, stated this on air on the ICTV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Drobovich said that such monuments belong next to the Nazi symbols of the Third Reich.
“What is it, what is it, both monuments, if they are erected, God forbid, by the occupiers in Kherson, and later the one that already stands in Odessa will need to be moved to a museum and removed. It seems to me that when the museum of the history of the occupation is built, it will be very good to show how these imperial symbols, the markers with which the empire indicates its presence, work.
Therefore, it seems to me that they should be preserved for the museum, just like the swastikas or the imperial eagles, the Nazi ones, preserved in museums around the world to be illustrated again. Also, in our case, this will need to be preserved for the museum... The idea was about several museums in Crimea, Kyiv and, it seems, in the east of Ukraine. But I think that, in principle, one museum will be enough,” Drobovich said.
Let us remember that earlier the authorities of Kherson turned to Russia for help in installing a monument to Catherine II, under whose reign the city was founded. Similar monument bwas restored in Simferopol in 2016, 95 years after its demolition.
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