Streets that honoured revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin or the Bolshevik Revolution were largely already gone; now Russia, not Ukraine's Soviet legacy, is the cultural enemy.
Municipal workers dismantle a monument dedicated to Russian writer Alexander Pushkin in Dnipro.abc.net.au/news/wartime-ukraine-erasing-russian-past-from-public-spaces/101795482On the streets of Kyiv, Fyodor Dostoevsky is on the way out. Andy Warhol is on the way in.A program already in place to erase Soviet influence in Ukraine has pivoted to removing Russian influence since Putin's invasion
Ukraine is accelerating efforts to erase the vestiges of Soviet and Russian influence from its public spaces by pulling down monuments and renaming hundreds of streets to honour its own artists, poets, soldiers, independence leaders and others — including heroes of this year's war. It's part punishment for crimes meted out by Russia, and part affirmation of a national identity by honouring Ukrainian notables who have been mostly overlooked.
He is among the many Ukrainians who were born speaking Russian as a first language. Now, they shun it — or at least limit their use of it. Volodymyr Prokopiv, deputy head of the Kyiv City Council, said Ukraine's "de-communisation" policy since 2015 had been applied in a "soft" way so as not to offend sensitivities among the country's Russian-speaking and even pro-Moscow population.
Andrew Wilson, a professor at University College London, cautioned about "the dangers in rewriting the periods in history where Ukrainians and Russians did cooperate and build things together".
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