Ukrainian nationalists have torn down a second monument to Lenin in Kramatorsk
In Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, activists of the Ukrainian radical nationalist party "Freedom" demolished another monument to Vladimir Lenin that stood in the old part of the city.
According to the head of Kramatorsk city organization of the party Sergey Kornienko, activists so " fulfilled the law on decommunization of Ukraine in support of the initiatives of the President Poroshenko and despite the opposition from the head of the region Alexander Kikhtenko ", informs UNIAN. First, on April 17, during the March Pro-active participants in Kramatorsk in the Central square of the city was knocked down a statue of Lenin. In Ukraine in the framework of the struggle with the Soviet past more than a year continues active destruction of monuments. Have Radiolinja to tear down the monuments to Lenin in Ukraine from December 8, 2013. In 2014, the cases of vandalism are relatively platycephalidae on the entire territory of Ukraine. This phenomenon is called the "war of monuments" or " Leninabad ". Kramatorsk in the spring of last year was one of the centers of resistance of the residents of Donbass, who opposed the coming to power of the nationalists. After the departure of the militia in Donetsk on 5 July 2014 Kramatorsk Ukrainian Military took. on 9 April the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law prohibiting public use and propaganda of the Communist and national socialist symbols in the country, as well as recognizing these criminal regimes.
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