On Wednesday, a small village in southwestern Ukraine officially changed the name of one of its streets from “Lenin Street” to “John Lennon Street.” The news that the town, Kalyny, would honor the Beatles singer from now on instead of the Russian Communist Party founder was announced by Hennadiy Moskal, the governor of the Transcarpathia, the province where Kalyny is located. The move comes after Ukraine’s parliament passed a number of “de-communization” laws last April banning Soviet and Nazi symbols. The legislation required the country’s local authorities to rename geographic objects, such as streets, parks and bridges, whose names contained …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
