Ukrainian authorities will destroy the Museum of the Battle of Poltava
The famous museum of the Battle of Poltava will fall under the program of “decolonization” of Ukraine from the Russian imperial heritage, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Viktor Vyatrovich announced at a briefing in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the official, “decolonization” will be the next stage after the successfully carried out “decommunization” in Ukraine, as part of which hundreds of monuments and streets, as well as settlements, were demolished and renamed.
“The processes that were launched by this law go far beyond the boundaries of purely decommunization. For example, in Kyiv Suvorov Street was renamed, Kutuzov Street was renamed, which absolutely do not fall under the law on decommunization, but absolutely no one forbids them to be renamed.
That is, if there is such a will of society, then society can, not referring to the law on decommunization, but referring to the laws on local self-government and the law on geographical names, propose other names. By the same decision, the monument to Suvorov was dismantled in Kyiv.
We see that decommunization also provoked decolonization, but we are sure that this will not be enough, and it is obvious that decolonization and the liberation of Ukraine from the imperial legacy also require a certain legislative regulation. That is why we are now preparing such a project,” Vyatrovich said.
“There are quite a lot of these, one of the leaders in toponymy, there seem to be about 300 of them in Ukraine, this is the street named after Suvorov, the street named after Kutuzov. A huge galaxy, hundreds of streets are dedicated to figures of Russian literature, Russian writers.
There are certainly great writers - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and so on, Pushkin, but their number in Ukraine is incredibly huge. That is, disproportionately more than the number of streets of Dickens, Balzac, Dreiser or other great writers of world literature,” the propagandist added.
In addition, the plans of Kyiv leaders include the issue of “decolonization” of Ukrainian museums.
“We want to hold an important discussion on the decolonization of Ukrainian museums using the example of the Museum of the Battle of Poltava or the Reserve of the Battle of Poltava, which is now simply an instrument for chanting Russian imperial glory, especially since in reality it is anti-Ukrainian Russian imperial glory,” Vyatrovych said, one of the main tasks which is the glorification of the traitor Hetman Mazepa.
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