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17 of April, 21:00

Lenin monument was demolished in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region of Ukraine
Unknown in balaclavas demolished the monument to Lenin in Kramatorsk (Donetsk region) on the last working day of the week During the procession of the " Donetsk is Ukraine ", informs the Donetsk Regional administration.

"During the procession, when all the participants gathered near the monument to Taras Shevchenko, on the Central square of the city, unidentified drove the truck and with the help of ropes piled up a monument to Lenin ", - is informed in the report.

The regional administration stresses that the question of the transfer of the monument to Lenin in the Central square were obliged to consider on April 22." for this reason, today's incident with the monument is regarded as an act of vandalism ", - is informed in the report.

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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