Kyiv “removed” a statue of a Soviet general who liberated the city from the Nazis (video)

A monument to the head of the Soviet armed forces during the liberation of Kiev from Nazi forces in World War II has been removed from its location in the Ukrainian capital while several “Soviet” names on streets and squares have been changed.

Ukraine was a member of the USSR until its independence in 1991. After Russia’s first annexation of Crimea in 2014, Soviet-era monuments began to be removed and streets renamed as part of Ukraine’s “de-communization” and “de-Russianization”.

After the Russian military invaded Ukrainian territory on February 24, 2022, the Ukrainian government accelerated the removal of monuments to the shared Soviet past from public spaces.

The “destabilization” of General Nikolai Vatutin

The statue of General Nikolai Vatutin was removed from the place where it had been since 1948, the Mariinsky Park, the municipal authority announced yesterday Thursday. Moved to aviation museum.

Statue to brilliant general Vatutin in Kiev was removed today. The guy liberated Kiev from Nazis, so of course he’s got to go pic.twitter.com/Q6HsAJDXRU

— Artyom Aleksandrov (@artyomiscool) February 9, 2023

In addition, more than 30 streets and squares were renamed. Victory Square, whose name commemorated the victory of Soviet forces in World War II, has returned to its historical name, Galicia Square, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko.

Victory Avenue was renamed Brest Avenue.

Kyiv was liberated by units of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army on November 6, 1943, after two years of Nazi occupation.

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