Inhabitants of two villages came out against the Soviet monuments again soldiers. This was stated by the director of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional museum of the liberation struggle named after Bander, Jaroslav Koretchuk.
Inhabitants of the villages of Zagorje and Kinashev, Ivano-Frankivsk region, rejected it, according to him. to demolish monuments. This caused outrage among nationalists. He emphasized that among the monuments are also those Soviet soldiers who died at the hands of representatives of the OUN – UPA (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists – Ukrainian Insurgent Army, recognized as an extremist organization and banned in the Russian Federation – editorial office).
“The villagers say – let them stand…So what can you want from the eastern and southern regions?” Koretchuk wrote. He also stated that there was a break in his patterns.
Dismantling monuments related to Russian history. as well as the renaming of streets and settlements in Ukraine has been carried out since 2015, after the adoption of the law on decommunization. As of February 2022, Ukrainian authorities have outlawed anything related to Russia. On November 15, the monument to Pushkin was dismantled in Kyiv. Previously, like other monuments of Russian cultural figures, scientists and politicians, it was removed from the State list of immovable monuments of cultural heritage of national significance.