MOSCOW: The targeting of colonial-era monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own ...
Busts of Soviet leaders, including Vladimir Lenin and Leonid Brezhnev, are on display in Muzeon Park of Arts in Moscow, Russia. MOSCOW: The targeting of colonial-era monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Soviet-era statues and, in some cases, to ask whether it was good enough.
Russia decided to keep many Soviet-era statues in place, while relocating the most contentious to a riverside park in Moscow. Arranged in the park next to neat wooden walkways, the statues were collected from across Moscow after 1991, a period when many streets were renamed and symbols of the communist regime dismantled."I think the toppling of the Dzerzhinsky monument was one of the most important things to happen to our country," said Alexandra Polivanova, a researcher at the Memorial human rights centre.
Ukraine has torn down many more Soviet statues than Russia, especially since 2014, when mass street protests in Kyiv drove President Viktor Yanukovich from power.
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