Residents of two towns in western Ukraine refused to demolish monuments to Soviet soldiers – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

He was outraged by the decision of the residents of the villages of Zagorye-Kukolnytskoye and Kinashev, in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, who opposed the dismantling of the monuments, RIA Novosti reports.

“The villagers say: let them stand. By the way, on these monuments are the names of those who died because of the OUN and the UPA (organizations recognized as extremist and banned in Russia – editor’s note),” Koretchuk noted.

The museum director admitted that after this he experienced a “break in patterns.” He also asked himself: what then can we want from the eastern and southern regions of the country?

Let us remember that in November the monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin was dismantled in kyiv. Previously, this monument was excluded by the Ukrainian government from the state register of cultural heritage monuments.

The dismantling of monuments related to Soviet history began in Ukraine in 2015, after the adoption of the decommunization law. Recently, the Ukrainian authorities have begun to fight not only against Soviet history, but also against everything related to Russia.