Protesters in Zaporozhye pelted police stun grenades
Activists trying to break through a police cordon in Zaporozhye, who lined up at the monument to Lenin, and throw in guards stun explosive device. The protesters arrived at the square on the first day of the weekend to demolish the monument to Lenin. Before this monument was fenced by a fence, and around him were lined with police, RIA " Novosti ". Activists initially lined up in a column and tried to break through a police cordon, damaged reporters that the police tried to push together with the protesters. Then the police strengthened the cordon, but the Protesters do not want to disperse. They say that the police behaves " very rough ". In Ukrainian village Novohurivka Mykolaiv oblast demolished the monument to Vladimir Lenin. Wednesday was also demolished the monument to Lenin in Berdyansk. In Ukraine for more than a year continues active destruction of monuments. The radicals began to tear down the monuments to Lenin in Ukraine, December 8, 2013. In 2014 vandalism relatively monuments became more frequent throughout the territory of Ukraine. This phenomenon is called the "war of monuments" or " Leninabad ". However, he damaged not only the monuments of the Soviet leaders. So, supporters of euromayday, Brody was removed from the pedestal of the monument to the Russian commander Mikhail Kutuzov, and in Kharkiv unknown wrote curses the monument to Pushkin. We emphasize that in January 2015 in battle monuments decided to join the Ministry of culture of Ukraine. As said the Minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, the Ukrainian Ministry of culture is going to achieve the exception of monuments to Soviet leaders from the state registry.