On the last working day of the week in the evening during the March Pro-active participants in Kramatorsk in the Central square of the city was knocked down a statue of Lenin.




17. 45 the square, drove the machinery, the monument was thrown over the rope and the monument collapsed, reports Kramatorsk. Info. According to witnesses, the founder of the dismantling of the monument to Lenin became the head of the local branch of the nationalist party "Freedom" Sergey Kornienko. on 9 April the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law prohibiting public use and propaganda of the Communist and national socialist symbols in the country, as well as recognizing these criminal regimes. In Ukraine, in the framework of the struggle with the Soviet past more than a year continues active destruction of monuments. Radicals began to tear down the monuments to Lenin in Ukraine from December 8, 2013. In 2014, cases of vandalism relatively monuments became more frequent throughout the territory of Ukraine. This phenomenon is called the "war of monuments" or " Leninabad ". Kramatorsk in the spring of last year was one of the centers of resistance of Donbass residents who disagreed with the coming to power of the nationalists. After the departure of the militia in Donetsk on 5 July 2014 Kramatorsk Ukrainian Military took. VIDEO

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