A Kyiv monument traded a 42-year-old Soviet coat of arms for a modern trident Sunday, a swap that exemplifies the war-torn country’s fight against the 21st-century Russian army and the vestiges of Ukraine’s Soviet past.
The Motherland statue’s new shield marks yet another sign of the campaign Ukrainians have variously called “decolonization,” “de-communization” and “de-Russification.” The trident is featured on Ukraine’s coat of arms,to the 10th century, when it was associated with Volodymyr the Great, the grand prince of Kyiv.
As in previous cases, Russian officials condemned the change. Leonid Slutsky, head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, that remaking the statue does not erase Russia and Ukraine’s shared history. He said Ukraine is disrespectfully trying to claim Soviet victories as its own.
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