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.

considering the forced starvation of the Eukrainians....one can safely assume they have every right to deface any bolshevik statue they want.

Bankrupt economy, no jobs, currency in a mess, government in tatters ....... wouldn't be hard to be the best news coming from Ukraine! Maybe it is time, to get rid of post Soviet real estate, Crimea! any one wan't it. As it came from Soviet times, and they therefore would want to get rid of it. Are there any takers!

Nationalists means patriots. Having studied the history carefully it's been ridiculous to have kept the monument of the guy for so long time. Some of his hostile qoutes: 'Those who are not with us are against us' or 'Proletariat dictatorship is a good business'?

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.

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.