This was discussed today during the on-site meeting of the working group on decommunization in Chervonohrad, which was attended by Deputy Chairman of the Lviv Regional Council Yuriy Kholod and First Deputy Chief of the Lviv Regional Military Administration Andriy Godyk.
All seven communities of Chervonograd district currently have unfulfilled homework. In general, the region completed the task of decommunization by 30%. Some communities still haven’t gotten rid of a single object.
“Together with the working group on issues of decommunization at the Lviv OVA and heads of communities, we discussed every monument that has not yet been dismantled. In particular, it was also about the scandalous case with the newly discovered monuments in the Belgian community. In total, we have already found 5 of them, although before that the community declared that there were no facilities for decommunization. Such facts are unacceptable. No one will hide those propaganda symbols from the fair judgment of history. Starting tomorrow, a law will come into force that will allow regional military leaders to dismantle Soviet monuments by their own orders,” says the deputy chairman of the Lviv Regional Council Yuriy Kholod.
As noted by deputies of the Lviv Regional Council and member of the working group Zakhar Mylyanyk, all monuments to the occupying forces, together with tables and the so-called mothers-fatherlands, must be dismantled by the end of the year. Or rather – in the near future, as long as the weather permits.
“Almost 160 objects of communist propaganda have been dismantled in Lviv Oblast since the beginning of the year. Until the end of the year, it remains to get rid of more than a hundred objects. We have our own heroes and our own history, and hostile propaganda must disappear from public space once and for all,” the deputy explains.
Anton Petrivskyi, a serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and co-founder of the “Local Decommunization” initiative, also addressed community representatives online.
During the field meeting, the regional decommunization working group, representatives of the community and local authorities dismantled the emergency monument to the Soviet invader in the town of Hirnyk, which was still standing in front of the gymnasium.