About 300 monuments to Lenin dismantled in Ukraine for the period from January of this year, more than 2 thousand remain in the country, stated 1st Deputy Director of the Ukrainian Institute of national memory Alina Shpak radio " ".

As informs radio, Shpak said that last time it was demolished About 300 monuments to Lenin and 50-70 other Soviet leaders.

" Approximately, as of the end of the summer of the current year, we estimate that in Ukraine there are About 2, 2 thousands of monuments to Lenin. But the story is about the monuments, the monuments. We here do not include bas-reliefs, reliefs, busts and other parts of the body of this " great leader ". This is a large amount, although the position in August 1991 of such monuments was 5, 5 thousand " - quoted Shpak radio.

She added that during the years of independence the number of monuments to Lenin in Ukraine fell by more than 2 times.

Vandalism relative to the monuments of the Soviet period, was widely spread in Ukraine in winter amid mass protests. The resonance was the demolition of the radicals of the monument to Lenin in Central Kiev, December 1, 2013.

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