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In Kyiv, work began on dismantling the coat of arms of the USSR on the Motherland monument (streamable.com)
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[–] supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think what OP was saying is that they want to remove the coat of arms from the monument not the monument

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Right but they're removing the thing that those people fought and died for. Which is why I wonder whether they're going to remove them as well. It is turning a soviet memorial to the dead that fought for the soviet union against the nazis into a symbol of ukrainian nationalism.

It seems like a terrible waste of resources too at this time to have labour going into this in the middle of a war instead of doing war construction, when the decommunisation law explicitly excludes and protects ww2 memorials from defacement. The only reason I can think of for doing this now while there is no political opposition is because it might be difficult to do later when a political opposition finally exists again.