New regulations in Ukraine ban streets, towns and products from glorifying communismThis past New Year’s Eve marked the last time Ukrainians could pop open “Soviet champagne”, as the Kiev factory that makes it announced it is changing the popular drink’s name, due to a controversial law on decommunisation in the country.The regulations, which came into force last May, ban any street, town or product from having names that glorify communism. It also makes it a crime to deny the “criminal character of the communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991 in Ukraine”. … …read more
Source: The Guardian
