{"id":403467,"date":"2019-04-10T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/decommunization-law\/"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:00:45","slug":"decommunization-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/decommunization-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Years Since Decommunization Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9g780hkT9P0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\nPublic decommunization in Ukraine began during the Euromaidan Revolution. On December 8th, 2013, a monument to Vladimir Lenin on the Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in Kyiv was demolished. Protesters smashed the statue &#8211; a symbol of the totalitarian Soviet epoch.<\/p>\n<p>Similar Communist symbols were demolished or removed across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Later, in April 2015, the Ukrainian parliament adopted the law on decommunization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Maundy Thursday, we clean the Communist infection and plague. Thank you for your support. I congratulate us all on accepting this important, historical decision,&#8221; Chairman of Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy said.<\/p>\n<p>During the first year of decommunization, the Verkhovna Rada adopted 13 decrees, renaming 987 settlements and 25 districts &#8211; in<br \/>\ntotal &#8211; just over a thousand placenames.<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 historical names were restored. Around 70 of them belong to the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples and national communities of Ukraine &#8211; Crimean Tatars, Bulgarians, Greeks, Jews, and others. In Crimea, five districts, one town, and 69 villages were renamed. Most of it was a restoration of historical place names, which were erased from the map by the Stalinist regime after the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944.<\/p>\n<p>In the temporarily occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the parliament renamed 74 cities, towns, districts, and villages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The war which is happening now is not so much about the territory but about the Ukrainian identity. Decommunisation in this context was extremely important &#8211; because the traces of the Communist, totalitarian past were leaving the Ukrainian consciousness,&#8221; Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Vyatrovych said.<\/p>\n<p>In Kyiv, every tenth street was renamed and over 50 objects were removed &#8211; memorial signs, five-pointed Red Stars, and emblems of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are near the house where the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen barracks were at the end of 1917 and beginning of 1918. It was one of the most combat-ready, disciplined and invincible units of the Ukrainian People&#8217;s Republic army,&#8221; Historian, Coordinator of the Project Likbez-Historical Front Kyrylo Halushko said, speaking of\u00a0Sich Riflemen Street in Kyiv, the first street to be renamed after decommunization.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas previously the name of the street was Artem Sergeev, now it is directly connected to Ukrainian history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Artem is not for this place and this town. He is one of the Soviet-era propaganda symbols, and Sich Riflemen were there. They went down this street to suppress the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal Plant,&#8221; Halusko said.<\/p>\n<p>Halushko said that he is glad that his children can see Ukrainian history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don\u2019t need to drag all the past along, because sometimes it is hard to move forward when you have lots of skeletons in your closet &#8211; that you cannot explain to anyone,&#8221; Halushko said. &#8220;For me, the surroundings and the streets my children and grandchildren will walk, are important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Decommunization in Ukraine is continuing. In the near future, Ukraine&#8217;s Dnipropetrovsk region could be changed to Sicheslav. Meanwhile, a street in Kyiv which used to be named after Soviet intelligence officer Ivan Kudria, was renamed in honor of American senator and friend of Ukraine, John McCain.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance say that decommunization has to be followed by decolonization, which should destroy the traces of the country&#8217;s totalitarian imperial past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public decommunization in Ukraine began during the Euromaidan Revolution. 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