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26 of January, 13:19

Monuments to Lenin and Dzerzhinsky were demolished in Odessa
Activists of the Ukrainian party Svoboda was demolished two monument to the leaders of the Soviet era in the Odessa region.
The incident happened last weekend, TASS informs. The responsibility he took on his own shoulders the local cell " Freedom ". In, Ovidiopol was demolished bust of the founder of the Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky, but in the immediate vicinity of Odessa Nerubayskoe dropped from the pedestal of the monument to Lenin. The press service of "Freedom" UKRINFORM recalled that " during the last six months on the area of the Odessa area felled dozens of statues of the Soviet era ". First of fifteen January, unidentified tore down the statue of Lenin in the village of Zatoka Odessa region. It claimed that the monument was destroyed about a dozen unidentified young men in balaclavas and camouflage uniforms, who had arrived by bus and were called by the defense of Odessa. Recall, Ukraine for more than a year continues active destruction of monuments. The radicals began to tear down the monuments to Lenin in Ukraine, December 8, 2013. In 2014 vandalism relatively monuments became more frequent throughout the territory of Ukraine. This phenomenon is called the "war of monuments" or " Leninabad ". However, he damaged not only the monuments of the Soviet leaders. So, supporters of euromayday, Brody was removed from the pedestal of the monument to the Russian commander Mikhail Kutuzov, and in Kharkiv unknown wrote curses the monument to Pushkin. We emphasize that in January 2015 in battle monuments decided to join the Ministry of culture of Ukraine. As said the Minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, the Ukrainian Ministry of culture is going to achieve the exception of monuments to Soviet leaders from the state registry.


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