Lviv is the first region of Ukraine to remove all Soviet-era monuments

Ukraine’s Lviv region has become the first in the country to remove all its Soviet-era monuments, its governor said Tuesday, as part of a broader wartime effort to erase all traces of Russian rule.

Ukraine launched a “decommunization” campaign after a 2014 revolution ousted a pro-Moscow president and has continued the effort as it fights Russia’s nearly two-year-old invasion.

Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said that last year in the Lviv region, on the border with Poland, 312 monuments were removed by activists and local residents.

“Not a cent of the regional budget has been spent to tear down these ‘idols’,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Thousands of streets and settlements in Ukraine, which declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, have also been renamed in recent years as part of the initiative.

Last week, the mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, proposed renaming Pushkin Street – which sits in the center of the city and is named after a famous Russian author – to honor a prominent Ukrainian philosopher.

Last month, authorities in the Ukrainian capital Kiev dismantled a statue of a Red Army commander on a central avenue.

Source: Terra

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