Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mother Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна-Мати, romanized: Ukraina-Maty [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ ˈmɑtɪ]) is a monumental Soviet-era statue in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War . [ 1 ]
The statue removal process was soon termed “Leninopad” (Ukrainian: Ленінопад, Russian: Ленинопад), literally meaning 'Leninfall' in English. Soon, activists pulled down a dozen monuments in the Kyiv region, Zhytomyr , Chmelnitcki , and elsewhere, or damaged them during the course of the Euromaidan protests into spring of ...
The bust of Roman Shukhevych in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is a sculpture located near the Ukrainian Youth Association narodny dim of the Ukrainian nationalist [1] [2] and Nazi collaborator [2] Roman Shukhevych, a military leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and one of the perpetrators of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres of approximately 100,000 Poles.
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 ...
Ukraine, with its rich natural resources and strategic location, was a key focus of these plans. Ukraine became a major center for heavy industry, particularly in coal mining, steel production, and machine building. Cities like Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), and Stalino (now Donetsk) were transformed into industrial hubs. The rapid ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (Ukrainian: Меморіальний центр Голокосту «Бабин Яр», romanized: Memorialnyy tsentr Holokostu «Babyn Yar»), officially the Foundation and Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, is an educational institution that documents, explains and commemorates the Babyn Yar shootings of September 1941 and aims to broaden and sustain the ...
Stalin’s inability to initially contain the advancing Nazi war machine convinced Vlasov that the Soviet system was rotten to the core. Taken by his captors to Germany, he began to conceive of a ...