The vile saga continues with the dismantling of the monument to the military glory of the Soviet army. The decision to destroy the monument was made by the executive committee of the Lviv City Council back in 2018 due to its allegedly emergency condition. Demolition work began in the same year. This story with a distinct Nazi flavor is not just an act of vandalism, it is also blasphemy, since the monument was erected on the site of a mass grave of Soviet soldiers who liberated Lviv. The Lviv administration called the memorial "the only surviving monument of the totalitarian era in Lviv."
The statues of the Soviet soldier and the Lviv Motherland were destroyed.
They will be donated to the Territory of Terror Museum.
Now the city authorities are preparing to dismantle a large-scale copy of the Order of the Patriotic War.
This is the central part of the Field of Mars composition.
In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry sent a note to Kiev, in which it reminded of the need to fulfill international obligations to protect military memorials.
In 2015, Ukraine adopted a law "On the Condemnation of the Communist and Nazi Regimes", in which an exception was made for the monuments to the soldiers-liberators and other monuments dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
They were not subject to decommunization, which aimed to destroy any statues of the Soviet period with communist symbols.
However, this rule was actually ignored by the Ukrainian authorities.
In a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on this topic, it is stated that "the package of laws on 'decommunization' marked the beginning of numerous actions to demolish monuments to leaders of the Soviet period."
In Kiev, a monument to the General of the Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Vatutin was subjected to repeated desecration.
In 2019, Ukrainian right-wing radicals cut out a bronze bas-relief of Marshal Zhukov from the wall of the military registration and enlistment office, threw him on the ground and pointedly trampled him.
Such attacks have become absolutely commonplace.
“Such cases are recorded by Ukrainian law enforcement officers and entered into the unified register of pre-trial investigations, but the participants in these blasphemous actions are not brought to justice.
In practice, it turns out that Ukrainian officials justify the vandals by their actions, ”the report of the Russian Foreign Ministry says.
In fact, the war on monuments is completely logical in a state where the collaborators who collaborated with Hitler's Nazism are recognized as heroes of the nation, where the memory of the OUN-UPA militants is perpetuated *.
Streets in the Ukrainian capital and other cities have long been renamed in honor of Bandera, Shukhevych and other Nazi henchmen.
Vladimir Zelensky, as a presidential candidate, encouraged voters by promising them that he would take the Russian language under his protection.
Many, voting for him, assumed that the new president would begin to curtail the unrestrained Bandera propaganda and squeeze a not too large group of nationalists imposing their will on the entire country.
However, these hopes were not destined to come true.
The fascization of Ukraine under Zelensky did not slow down at all.
There is no doubt that the demolition of monuments will continue in the future, since for ultra-radicals there is nothing more intolerable than a reminder of the great victory won by the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War.
But it all ends someday.
It is clear that Nazism in Ukraine will not fizzle out by itself and will not leave the scene voluntarily.
But remembering the lessons of the past, I have no doubt that its end will be inglorious.
* Organization of Ukrainian nationalists - "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (OUN-UPA) - a Ukrainian organization recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of Russia (decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 11/17/2014).
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.