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The invasion of Ukraine generated an increased desire to remove such items, with 20 removed by August 2022 with 40 more scheduled for removal. [7] Ukraine. Ukraine had removed over 2,000 monuments to Russian communism by 2020 in accordance with the de-communism law of 2015, including 1,320 statues or busts of Lenin.
The list of damaged cultural sites during the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a list of cultural sites in Ukraine that have been verified by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as damaged and/or destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (that started on 24 February 2022).
The structures had been installed in 1982, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Union, but Ukraine had been discussing the removal of the statue since 2016. [59] On 4 May Ukrainian cultural inspectors announced that Russian troops had destroyed kurgans, ancient burial sites over 2,000 years old. The mounds, up to 15 metres high ...
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in early 2001 shocked the world and highlighted their hard-line regime, toppled soon after in a U.S.-led invasion.
The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks — lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era emblem with ...
It had been erected in 1946. On June 30, 2009, the nose of the statue and part of the left hand were destroyed. [14] [15] [16] The statue was restored (at the expense of the Communist Party of Ukraine) [17] and re-unveiled on November 27, 2009, by Petro Symonenko, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
However, by 2013, most Lenin statues across Ukraine were still intact. During the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests, the destruction of statues became widespread, a phenomenon that came to be popularly known as Leninopad, or Leninfall in English. [1] The use of "-пад" being akin to English words suffixed with "fall" as in "waterfall" and ...
Prior to 2022 Pushkin was the third most common historical figure represented in Ukraine's streetscapes. [1]Ukrainian researcher Volodymyr Yermolenko claimed that Russian literature has been a "vehicle of the country’s imperial project and nationalist world-view," giving as examples Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol. [3]