The monument to Vladimir Lenin was dismantled in Luhansk city Svatove in Ukraine, informs town portal referring to Lugansk branch Association " Freedom ".

" in Svatove, Luhansk oblast dismantled the Monument to Lenin, " says the report.

The article is accompanied by a photograph of a fallen monument.

on Sunday in Kharkov fell off the pedestal of the Monument to Lenin, who tried to crush the demonstrators for the unity of Ukraine. The police opened a case in accordance with paragraph " the destruction or damage of cultural heritage objects ", but immediately closed it, saying that it was the proper order of the head of the Kharkiv oblast Igor Baluty. Near the destroyed monument occurred skirmishes, there are victims.

Vandalism relatively monuments became more frequent throughout the territory of Ukraine in the end of political decline, which was accompanied by riots in Kiev and ended with the coming To power of the opposition, who received supervision over the country. The resonance was incident on 1 December 2013, when the radicals dropped from the pedestal of the statue of Lenin in Central Kiev.

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