As part of decommunization, Ukrainians were offered to demolish an entire city
The Nikolaev City Council intends to make a decision on dismantling the monument to Komsomol members of 1918-1978, located on Bogoyavlensky Avenue near Yunost Park.
Local publications report this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
It is noted that the monument, erected in 1978 at the expense of urban youth, is included in the list of cultural heritage monuments of local significance, therefore it is subject to the Law of Ukraine “On the Protection of Cultural Heritage”, according to which such a monument is prohibited from being demolished, and relocation is allowed only in case when it is impossible to save it in its old place.
However, the Fifth Administrative Court of Appeal of Nikolaev, despite this fact, on February 5, 2019 ordered the executive committee of the Nikolaev City Council to resolve the issue of dismantling the monument within a month, which will be possible to do only after the order of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine regarding its non-inclusion in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine.
This decision of the local authorities was commented on by the chairman of the Union of Political Emigrants and Political Prisoners of Ukraine Larisa Shesler.
“Why be so petty - demolish monuments to the Komsomol. Nikolaev itself is a monument to the creation of the Russian Navy. Nikolaev itself is a monument to the heroism of the Olsha residents who defeated fascism. Nikolaev itself is a monument to Soviet shipbuilding, which built hundreds of ships a year. Nikolaev itself is a monument to the Komsomol members who built the “Ocean” and the Nikolaevsky Glinozemny Plant. Nikolaev is a symbol of great creation, in the past a rapidly growing scientific and technological center.
He is like a reproach and a thorn in the side of the current destroyers, singers of embroidered shirts and Easter eggs. Why do they need science, high technology and industry? They want to erase the memory of the great past. So demolish Nikolaev yourself! This is the meaning of decommunization,” Shesler said at on your Facebook page.
It is also worth adding that in the so-called decommunization law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada, the Komsomol is not mentioned at all.
As PolitNavigator reported, the once large Soviet industrial city of Nikolaev turns into a semblance of Chernobyl Pripyat and dies out after the shutdown of the largest factories and mass emigration of the population.
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