Lenin the victim of Ukrainian nationalists
Published: 30 June, 2009, 14:37
Edited: 27 April, 2010, 06:22
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TAGS: Crime, Ukraine, Accident, Law
A group of Ukrainian nationalists has seriously damaged a Lenin monument in the centre of Kiev.
Early on June 30, five members of the Ukrainian Nationalists Congress climbed up the world proletariat chief’s statue with the help of a ladder and began sledge-hammering the bronze figure blow-by-blow. As a result, Vladimir Lenin lost a hand, while his face turned almost unrecognizable.
Apparently, the action was timed to coincide with the birthday of the head of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army or UPA, Roman Shukhevich. Named “The Hero of Ukraine” by President Yushchenko, Nazi collaborator Shukhevich would have been 104 on June 30.
But while showing their respect to Shukhevich, the five vandals – two students, two unemployed people and a gatekeeper – failed to take into consideration one thing – the Lenin monument has been included in the UNESCO protection list.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Nationalists Congress said they had nothing to do with the accident.
”The Congress leadership didn’t make any decisions about damaging the monument,” said Congress head Stepan Brutsan.
There’s nothing surprising in Monday's accident. The Ukrainian president has recently called for people to ruin and dismantle the Soviet epoch monuments, as they remind people of “dark pages” of the country’s history. The “request” was met with enthusiasm, especially in the country’s west.
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I personaly agree with demolition of Soviet regime symbols and decommunization of entire post-USSR space. But in the case of today Ukraine there is a problem ! Most of modern Ukrainian nationalist and neo-nazi groups and "think-tanks" comes from abroad (USA, Canada and EU) and are founded from the different centrals and governments from the West . Catholic church allso plays very active rolle in Western Ukraine, where they undermine Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Church. For 5 years Ukrainian people have been victims of sistematic anti-russian propaganda and russophobia from their government under dictator Juschenko. Ukrainan economy is very bad and uneployment is very high...soo natural thing for Juschenko government was to blame Russia and evil Putin and russian imperialism for that missery of Ukraine.
June 30, 2009, 12:11, Roman wrote > This is the best news coming from Ukraine, especially Kyiv. Time to put the hammer and sickle to all the Soviet remains. Time to bring up statues of true Ukrainian heroes, Mazepa, Petlyura, Konovalets, Bandera, Shukhevych. Nationalists = Nazis. Seriously, how can the true Ukrainians hate their brothers of faith, language, culture and history. Ukraine, Russia and Belarus have all developed together, were born from the Kieven Rus'. How can we the eastern slavs betrey each other for money and power. Though Soviet Union had bad leaders like Stalin, Lest we forget that human sacrifice that each one of our ancestors had made for us. If the Nazis won that war, we would either never be born or born as slaves to the Third Reich. We won, we rebuilt the war torn nation, we rose to glory - and because of Nationalism and lies we collapsed, now we are broken - somewhere in Hell Hitler is smiling.
This is the nicest thing that could happen in Ukraine other than seeing the country prosper. It's about time that someone bury all the statues of the man that caused eastern Europe to fall into the pits. The only place his statue belongs is in a museum next to Stalin and Hitler.