3 monuments were demolished in Kharkov on the night of Saturday, the video of the dismantling of monuments has been posted to the world wide web.

focusing on video, demolished monuments to Soviet statesman Sergo Ordzhonikidze, revolutionary, civil war Nikolay Rudnev and Chairman of the Central Executive Committee Yakov Sverdlov.

Vandalism relatively monuments of the Soviet era have increased in Ukraine since the political decline in the country. The most resonant was the incident on 1 December 2013, when the radicals dropped from the pedestal of a statue of Lenin in Central Kiev. Just vandals have demolished more than five hundred monuments to Lenin in Ukraine, and about 1, 7 thousand survived.

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