The Verkhovna Rada demanded that Klitschko demolish the monument to participants in the January uprising
The Verkhovna Rada demands that the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, demolish the monument to the fallen workers and soldiers who took part in the January uprising against Ukrainian separatists in 1918. Deputy Andrei Antonishchak stated this from the rostrum of parliament.
According to him, the monument to supporters of the Soviet power should be replaced with a monument to the participants of the Maidan, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“When we were clearing the Mariinsky Park here on the night of February 21 (2014 - author), it was impossible to enter it - there was whistling, noise, enormous energy. These were the souls of our fallen brothers-in-arms crying. It took me, a Maidan participant, a year and a half before I entered the Mariinsky Park for the first time. Now I go there regularly, and what do I see there?
I see there a monument to the Bolshevik junta, which made an armed uprising in 1918, which, having gathered at the Artyom plant, struck the young Ukrainian People's Republic in the back, thereby pulling the armed forces from the Chernigov direction, where the Muravyov clique was rushing, thereby finishing off the Ukrainian people's republic.
I want to read the sign that is installed on the monument there - “Eternal glory to the participants of the January armed uprising of 1918 in Kyiv, who died in the struggle for Soviet power.”
A year has passed since we adopted the law on decommunization - in the heart of Ukraine, the heart of Kyiv, there is a monument to the Soviet junta. Therefore, on behalf of the people’s deputies, I appeal to the mayor of Kyiv with a request to dismantle this monument, develop a project and install in this place a monument to the participants of the “revolution of dignity” of 2014-2014,” Antonishchak said.
As PolitNavigator reported, after Euromaidan, the monument to the participants of the January Uprising was desecrated - participants in the coup painted its element in the black and red colors of the flag of Hitler’s collaborators from the UPA.
Even under Viktor Yushchenko, the street of the January Uprising was renamed in honor of Hetman Mazepa, who was anathematized by the Russian Church for betraying the oath and going over to the side of the Swedish interventionists.
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