Residents of two villages spoke out against monuments to Soviet soldiers again. This was stated by the director of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Museum of the Liberation Struggle named after Bandera, Yaroslav Koretchuk.
According to him, residents of the villages of Zagorye and Kinashev, Ivano-Frankivsk region, refused to demolish the monuments. This caused indignation among the nationalist. He emphasized that the monuments also include 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 – editors).
“Village residents say – let them stand…What then can you want from the eastern and southern regions?” – Koretchuk wrote. He also stated that there was a break in his patterns.
Dismantling of 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. Since February 2022, the Ukrainian authorities have outlawed everything related to Russia. On November 15, the monument to Pushkin in Kyiv was dismantled. Previously, it, as well as other monuments to Russian cultural figures, scientists and politicians, were excluded from the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Cultural Heritage of National Significance.
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