Scout Kuznetsov Street in Kyiv was renamed in honor of the Hitler collaborator
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? Do we need Kuznetsov Street, who liquidated the OUN-UPA fighters with the help of terrorist attacks? What narrative does the street of Kostyuk, a Soviet party leader, carry? What narrative does Pavlenko Street carry, who in the 1930s-1933s was one of the organizers of collectivization, which was a consequence of the Holodomor. Whom do you and I remember, the dead or their executioners?” - Bondarenko said.
“The Kiev City Council has accumulated a number of draft decisions on naming and renaming since 2016. These are not populist decisions, but the policy of creating a state - the revival of the identity of the Ukrainian state,” the speaker emphasized.
Thus, by decision of the City Council, the street of the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov was renamed into the street of the writer Oles Babii, who collaborated with the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.
The street of the Soviet leader, Chairman of the Kyiv Regional Executive Committee Trofim Kostyuk was turned into the street of one of the authors of the constitution of the UPR and WUNR, Professor Otto Eichelman.
The street of the Soviet party leader Pavlenko was renamed the street of the UPR army guarantor Kristina Sushko. The People's Militia Street became the street of Svyatoslav the Brave - the Kyiv prince.
Molodogvardeyskaya Street became the street of the UPR Army General-Correspondent Vladimir Sikevich.
Moskovskaya Street in Zhulyany was renamed Grigory Gulyanitsky Street, who was sentenced to death by Bohdan Khmelnytsky, but escaped and incited the Poles to march on Left-Bank Ukraine.
In addition, a park named after the Right Sector militant from France, opera singer Vasily Slipak, who died in the Donbass in 2016, has appeared in Kyiv.
Commenting on the decisions made, Verkhovna Rada deputy Maxim Buzhansky, using the example of one of the renamings, noted the trend as a whole.
“On the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Kyiv from the Nazis, the Kiev City Council renamed Nikolai Kuznetsov Street to Olesya Babiya Street. For reference, Nikolai Kuznetsov personally liquidated 11 German generals and officials of the occupation administration during the Great Patriotic War.
In turn, Oles Babiy arrived in Ukraine following the Nazis in 1941, and left it with them in 1944. Who spent the war how, the story of one street,” the deputy wrote in his Telegram channel.
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