Monuments to the Soviet generals and a bust of Pushkin will demolish monuments in Poltava

In Poltava, monuments are dismantled to the generals Alexei Zygin and Nikolai Vatutin, as well as the poet Alexander Pushkin. The corresponding decision was made by the deputies of the City Council. This was announced by the Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Alexander Tkachenko.

"The expert council of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy on Overcoming the consequences of Russification and totalitarianism has long recommended this to do this ... We are waiting for a decision on monuments dedicated to Peter I," Tkachenko wrote in Telegraph.

The bust of Pushkin and the monument to Zygin appeared in Poltava during the USSR. The monument to Vatutin was erected in 2013. Locals repeatedly demanded his demolition and doused his paint.

After the start of the war, Ukraine accelerated the process of renaming the names given in honor of the figures of Russian and Soviet history and culture, the monuments are demolished by them.

In particular, the sculptures of the Russian Empress II and the commander Alexander Suvorov were demolished in Odessa, Pushkin’s busts and a monument to the Soviet Marshal George Zhukov were dismantled in Kharkov, dozens of streets were renamed Kyiv.

In March of this year, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law prohibiting the names related to Russia to geographical objects.

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