The monument to Vladimir Lenin for the first time in a long time installed on Ukraine in the Chernigov area in the district town of Semenovka, said the press service of the regional Department of the Ukrainian Institute of national memory (winp).




"Lenin monument was restored and installed in the center. Last year in February, the monument was knocked down local activists. The Communists decided to restore it and return ", ? reported in the report on the Internet representative office of the Institute. While at the Institute was indignant that This case violates the law on decommunization." This case was an obvious outrage and condemnation.(...) The monument to Lenin in the village of Semenovka of Chernihiv region no doubt be dismantled ", ? reported in the report. 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 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.

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