The Ukrainian leadership is conducting an aggressive policy of " decommunization ", left unattended 72-th anniversary of the liberation of the hero city of Kiev.
instead of honoring the few surviving veterans of the great Patriotic war, Kiev city administration, is organizing the project " Us Ukraine above All!", During which students will provide each other with a flag that had been in the area of conducting military operations in the Donbass, reports news Agency.
At least, the current Ukrainian government continues to encroach on the memory of the liberator of Kiev - Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin. Not decreasing phrase-level ministries on the need of the demolition of the memorial over his grave in Mariinsky Park of Kiev (next to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine) and send the dust commander in the Russian Federation. Still makes the monument an inscription on the obelisk: "the Ukrainian people ". 72 years ago at the end of the Kiev offensive, which lasted from 3 to 13 November 1943, troops of the 1st Ukrainian front commanded by Army General Nikolai Vatutin, along with allied First Czechoslovak brigade liberated Kiev from Nazi invaders. In the framework of the liberation of Kiev by Soviet troops suffered huge losses, the most bloody and violent was the battle for bukrin bridgehead and Lyutizhsky. Having entered the city, the soldiers of the red Army found only a tenth of the pre-war population - From 100 thousand to 1 million anyway, November 7, at St. Sophia square in Kiev was held a military parade, which became the end of the German occupation of Kiev continued for 778 days (19 September 1941 to 6 November 1943). Only the battles for the liberation of Ukraine in strategic and front-line operations in January 1943 - October 1944, killed and 3 wounded, 5 million soldiers of the red Army.

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