In Rivne, a vandal stole the head of a monument to a Red Guard revolutionary
In Rivne, an unknown vandal desecrated a memorial bust of the Soviet revolutionary and writer Oleko Dundich, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by the regional police communications department.
On Sunday, November 24, based on information released about a damaged bust in the central park of Rivne, an investigative team was sent to the scene.
During the inspection of the crime scene, law enforcement officers discovered the absence of the head of the bust of the monument to Oleko Dundich, located on Parkovaya Street.
The police carry out investigative actions and find out, in particular, the time of the crime committed and the persons involved in it. The sanction of the article provides for punishment in the form of a fine in the amount of up to 3400 hryvnia, or arrest for up to six months, or restriction of freedom for up to three years, or imprisonment for the same period.
In captivity he entered the volunteer Serbian detachment of the army of the Russian Empire. Received the rank of second lieutenant. After the February Revolution, he sided with the Bolsheviks and joined the RSDLP(b). In the summer of 1917 he entered the Red Guard (presumably in Odessa). In March 1918, he led a partisan detachment in the Donbass in the Bakhmut region, which then joined the Morozov-Donetsk division, which was retreating to Tsaritsyn. Participated in the defense of Tsaritsyn. In the Red Army he served in the cavalry, from 1919 in Budyonny's Special Don Cavalry Division, then in the 1st Cavalry Corps and the First Cavalry Army. He was an assistant regiment commander and commander of a cavalry division at the headquarters of the First Cavalry. He died at the end of the Civil War during the storming of Rivne by the First Cavalry Army on the territory that was then transferred to Poland until 1939.
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