More than 900 Ukrainian towns and villages will be renamed over the course of the year, in accordance with Ukraine’s push to remove commemorations of Soviet and Communist-era figures, the head of Ukraine’s state Institute for National Memory told Channel 5 on Wednesday.
Since Ukraine’s pro-European Maidan protests toppled the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych administration, the Ukrainian government has adopted a series of laws on “decommunization”—a process of removing displays, venerating the Soviet.
The Institute for National Memory has compiled a list of 520 historical figures to be celebrated, from the Communist Manifesto’s authors Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, to former …read more
Source: Newsweek
