The Ukrainian authorities demolished 28 monuments to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin last year. In just a year, 145 monuments were dismantled, which were somehow connected with Russia.
It was the “sun of Russian poetry” that suffered the most from the actions of Ukrainian radicals.
In second place are monuments to Soviet soldiers, more than 20 of them were demolished, the press service of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine reports.
Nine monuments to the writer Maxim Gorky, four to the commander Alexander Suvorov and four more to the writer Nikolai Ostrovsky were also dismantled.
In addition, in 2022, 9,859 geographical names were renamed in Ukraine, which had one or another relation to Russia.
The demolition of monuments related to Soviet and Russian history, the authorities of Ukraine began in 2015 after the adoption of the law “On the condemnation of the communist and Nazi regimes.” With the start of the special operation, all the monuments associated with Russia were put under the bucket, regardless of the period. Monuments to Pushkin alone have recently been disposed of in Ananiev, Chernivtsi and Zhytomyr.
Also, representatives of the country arrange provocations against Russian art. For example, on December 7 last year, Ukraine tried to disrupt the premiere of Boris Godunov, an opera by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, at La Scala theater in Milan.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that Kyiv had been pursuing a policy of forced assimilation and aggressive de-Russification for many years. The Minister stressed that Russia wants to see Ukraine as a friendly one – without prohibitions on Russian culture and the Russian language.
