The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv, one of the nation's most recognizable landmarks, lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era emblem with the country's trident coat of arms.
The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv -- one of the nation's most recognizable landmarks -- lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era emblem with the country's trident coat of arms.
But now, instead of the hammer-and-sickle emblem, the shield features the Ukrainian tryzub, the trident that was adopted as the coat of arms of independent Ukraine on Feb. 19, 1992. The change is just one part of a long effort in Ukraine to erase the vestiges of Soviet and Russian influence from its public spaces -- often by removing monuments and renaming streets to honour Ukrainian artists, poets and soldiers instead of Russian cultural figures.
For many in Ukraine, the Soviet past is synonymous with Russian imperialism, the oppression of the Ukrainian language and the Holodomor, a man-made famine under Josef Stalin that killed millions of Ukrainians and has been recognized as an act of genocide by both the European Parliament and the United States.
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