Connection with Russia continues to be erased from public memory in Ukraine

31.05.2019, Kiev.

Kiev City Council decided to rename additional streets in Kiev, according to the Council’s official site publication of May 29.

For example, Panelnaya and Rossiyskaya streets will be named after military servicemen Andrey Abolmasov and Yuriy Litvinsky who were killed in Donbass. Dimitrov street will be named after Ukrainian artist Nikifor Drovnyak, Vyborgskaya street after Oleksa Tikhy (human rights activist, dissident), Podvoysky street after Yuriy Glushko (civil and political figure), Ivan Shevtsov street after Vasiliy Makukha (member of an organization banned in Russia).

The new names are to be approved at a plenary meeting of the Kiev Council.

The process of changing place names in Ukraine, which is associated with the replacement of Soviet and Russian symbols with Ukrainian ones, has been purposefully pursued since 2014. Over this period, about 200 streets, squares, boulevards, lanes, and avenues have lost their old names.

Further acts of renaming continued under the aegis of the de-Communization Act, which went into effect in May 2015. The Act is essentially aimed at eliminating the heritage of the Soviet period from the history of the Ukrainian state.

Meanwhile, a memorial commemorating not a Soviet hero, but a military leader belonging to the time of the Russian Empire, Aleksandr Suvorov, was among the ones dismantled in 2019.

Recently, on the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions, Pyotr Poroshenko said that the de-communization process in Ukraine has been completed. He also concluded that the memory of the communist terror is a deterrence factor against attempts “to revive the Russian world on Ukrainian land.”

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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