No statues of the former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin have been left across Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Vladimir Vyatrovich, said in an interview with
Liga edition issued on Thursday.
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A total of 2,389 monuments have been pulled down, including 1,320 statues of Lenin. As far as we know, there are no more (statues of) Lenin in the cities - on the territory controlled by Ukraine," he said. According to Vyatrovich, some monuments may still have survived in certain Ukrainian villages or at enterprises. "The fact is that they have never existed in inventories, they can be dismantled only if they are spotted," he added.
Vyatrovich said statues made of plaster don't have any monetary or historical value, and were destroyed. Bronze busts have been either melted or went to museums. He also said that before the end of the year, a museum of "monumental propaganda of the USSR" may be opened at Kiev's exhibition of economic achievements (VDNkH), where statues of Lenin will also be featured.
Comment: That's likely the real impetus of the Kiev regime; to remove all reminders of Ukraine's ties with Russia.
This has as much to do with 'anti-communism' as destroying reminders of the US civil war has to do with 'racism' and 'fascism'. Ironically, the same phenomenon in Ukraine's case is making way for the lionization of actual historical racist anti-semites and fascists.
The same anti-Russian mania has taken hold in Poland and the Baltic states, with the US and EU's tacit blessing.