Contents tagged with decommunisation
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Poroshenko: Nearly 1,500 monuments to Lenin were demolished in Ukraine
Ukraine’s de-communization program ensured the destruction of 1,500 monuments to Vladimir Lenin, stated President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on his official website on the Memorial Day for victims of political repression.
Poroshenko noted that at the end of 2013, Ukraine "looked like a textbook illustration of the history of the CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union]" and the cities, towns and villages of the country were "studded with idols of Lenin and his comrades" while the members of …
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The Constitutional Court of Ukraine begins consideration of law on de-communization
The Constitutional Court has begun consideration of the constitutionality of the law on de-communization ("On the condemnation of the communist and national-socialist [nazi] totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of propaganda of their symbols"), announced acting head of the court, Viktor Kryvenko.
There are 14 judges at the hearing; none of the judges have recused themselves.
The examination is taking place in the form of written proceedings.
"I declare open the plenary meeting …
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All Lenin monuments removed from Ukrainian cities
As a result of de-communization in Ukraine, 2,389 monuments were dismantled, of which 1,320 were monuments to communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, said the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Volodymyr Viatrovych.
"According to our information, there are no more Lenin monuments in the Ukrainian cities. Perhaps some are left in the countryside and on the territory of the enterprises. This is because they were never added to the registers; they can only be dismantled …