The government of the Ukrainian Melitopol dismantled 3 of the monument to Vladimir Lenin in Moscow, said in the city Council.




"Were dismantled pedestals on Lenin street, the Park of culture and leisure. Maxim Gorky, as well as at the railway station ", - quotes the letter of the " news Agency ". Recall that in Ukraine in the framework of the struggle with the Soviet past more than a year continues the dismantling and destruction of monuments. Radicals began to tear down the monuments to Lenin in Ukraine since December 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 ". Fifteen of may 2015, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a law On decommunization which ban Soviet symbols, recognise the illegal Communist regime, recognize UPA* fighters for independence of the country, and the Great Patriotic war, the date the order only be called the Second world. Just vandals have demolished more than five hundred monuments to Lenin in Ukraine, and about 1, 7 thousand Survived.
* Organization, relative to which a court has adopted the legally effective conclusion Of destruction or prohibition of the activities on the grounds stipulated by the Federal law "On countering extremist activity"

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