In Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine’s largest bronze sculpture of Volodymyr Lenin was put up for sale. The starting price of the lot on the Prozorro platform is almost UAH 10.5 million.
About this reported secretary of the Zaporizhzhia City Council, acting Regina Kharchenko, Mayor of Zaporizhzhia.
“The stolen funds will go to the needs of the Armed Forces. Converting the mission of the former “theoretician of Marxism” into resources to help our defenders, who are currently defending us from the followers of the Soviet regime“, Kharchenko noted.
In addition to Lenin himself, bronze sculptures of a steelworker, a collective farm worker, an electrician, a construction engineer, as well as capital and small letters are also on sale. The corresponding ad is already posted on Prozorro.
Active decommunization continues in Ukraine. In Kyiv, 29 objects were renamed, in particular the metro stations “Druzhby Narodiv” (now “Zvirynetska”) and “Lev Tolstoy Square” (now “Ukrainian Heroes Square”).
The names of Trudova Slava Square, Pushkin Park, and Chkalov Square were also changed. In Odesa, two districts were de-Russified: Malinovskyi became Khadzhibeyskyi, and Suvorovskyi became Peresypskyi. In addition, Oleksandrivskyi Avenue was renamed to Ukrainian Heroes Avenue.
The following cities are in the process of being renamed:
- Chervonograd (Lviv Oblast) — Sheptytskyi;
- Yuzhne (Odeszine) — Port Anental;
- Pavlograd (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) — Matviyiv;
- Sinelnikovo (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) — Rydnopillya;
- Brovary (Kyiv Oblast) — Brovary.
Lviv Oblast became the first region in Ukraine to fully complete the process of decommunization, dismantling 312 Soviet monuments.
