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The controversial Bronze Soldier of Tallinn monument, vandalized in protest of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, 12 April 2022.. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that had commenced in February 2022, a number of Soviet-era monuments and memorials were demolished or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced in former Eastern Bloc Soviet satellite states, as well as several ...
Toppled and destroyed [22] [29] Statue of Lenin: Chernihiv: 21 February 2014: Toppled [30] [31] Statue of Lenin: Chervona Sloboda: 8 July 2014: Toppled: According to the Ukrainian Communist Party "a criminal case has been opened over the act of vandalism". [32] [33] Statue of Lenin: Kharkiv: 28 September 2014: Toppled and destroyed: Statue of ...
The Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was a sculpture monument to Vladimir Lenin, located in Freedom Square, Kharkiv, Ukraine, that was toppled and demolished in 2014. It was the largest monument to Lenin in Ukraine, designed by Alexander Sidorenko after entering an open competition to design the monument in 1963, in the lead up to the anniversary of the October Revolution.
PISKY, Russian-controlled Ukraine (Reuters) - In a ruined Soviet-era apartment block in Pisky, near the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk, huge chunks of roof and walls lie scattered about the floor ...
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).
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.
KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces destroyed a pontoon bridge and parts of Russian armoured column as it tried to cross a river in the Donbas region, video footage released by Ukraine's ...
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]