Right but they’re removing the thing that those people fought and died for. Which is why I wonder whether they’re going to remove them as well. It is turning a soviet memorial to the dead that fought for the soviet union against the nazis into a symbol of ukrainian nationalism.
It seems like a terrible waste of resources too at this time to have labour going into this in the middle of a war instead of doing war construction, when the decommunisation law explicitly excludes and protects ww2 memorials from defacement. The only reason I can think of for doing this now while there is no political opposition is because it might be difficult to do later when a political opposition finally exists again.
I think what OP was saying is that they want to remove the coat of arms from the monument not the monument
Right but they’re removing the thing that those people fought and died for. Which is why I wonder whether they’re going to remove them as well. It is turning a soviet memorial to the dead that fought for the soviet union against the nazis into a symbol of ukrainian nationalism.
It seems like a terrible waste of resources too at this time to have labour going into this in the middle of a war instead of doing war construction, when the decommunisation law explicitly excludes and protects ww2 memorials from defacement. The only reason I can think of for doing this now while there is no political opposition is because it might be difficult to do later when a political opposition finally exists again.