A city like Zaporizhia is so tied up with Stalin and the Soviets you’d have to raze it all to the ground to really erase its historyThe statue of Lenin in Zaporizhia is the last major edifice of the Bolshevik leader left standing in the centre of a major Ukrainian city. Or rather, it was.Last week it was pulled down in accordance with Ukraine’s new “de-communisation” laws and its ban on Soviet symbols. The only way to ‘de-communise’ a city such as this would be to raze it to the groundCommunist history is remembered with a certain critical distance here, …read more
Source: The Guardian
