{"id":1781735,"date":"2022-12-20T13:11:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781735"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:18:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:18:26","slug":"ukraine-pulls-down-russian-statues-and-renames-hundreds-of-russian-named-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-pulls-down-russian-statues-and-renames-hundreds-of-russian-named-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Pulls Down Russian Statues and Renames Hundreds of Russian Named Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-pulls-down-russian-statues-and-renames-hundreds-of-russian-named-streets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781735&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ukraine-Erases-Russian-Past-by-pulling-Down-Statues-Renaming-Hundreds-of-Streets.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ukraine is erasing the vestiges of Soviet and Russian influence from its public spaces by dismantling monuments and renaming hundreds of streets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The country is instead honoring its own artists, poets, soldiers, and independence leaders as a move to wipe out any Russian imprint on the country.<\/p>\n<p>Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/russian-security-official-warns-of-world-war-iii-if-ukraine-joins-nato\/\">Russian invasion<\/a> earlier this year, leaving hundreds dead and infrastructure destroyed, Ukraine is now removing its communist past into one of \u201cde-Russification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Brietbart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/12\/20\/ukraine-pulls-down-statues-renames-hundreds-of-streets-to-erase-russian-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Russia, through the Soviet Union, is seen by many in Ukraine as having stamped its domination of its smaller southwestern neighbor for generations, consigning its artists, poets and military heroes to relative obscurity compared with more famous Russians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If victors write history, as some say, Ukrainians are doing some rewriting of their own \u2013 even as their fate hangs in the balance. Their national identity is having what may be an unprecedented surge, in ways large and small.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has taken to wearing a black T-shirt that says: \u201cI\u00b4m Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-kyiv-f9a9caa76585b6eecfa940a09110d01e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In its program, Kyiv conducted an online survey and received 280,000 suggestions in a single day, Prokopiv said. Then, an expert group sifted through the responses, and municipal officials and street residents give a final stamp of approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/russia-approves-bill-banning-all-lgbtq-propaganda-from-media\/\">Russia Approves Bill Banning ALL LGBTQ Propaganda from Media<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the \u201cde-Communization\u201d program, about 200 streets were renamed in Kyiv before this year. In 2022 alone, that same number of streets have been renamed and another 100 are scheduled to get renamed soon, Prokopiv said.<\/p>\n<p>A street named for philosopher Friedrich Engels will honor Ukrainian avant-garde poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych. A boulevard whose name translates as \u201cFriendship of Peoples\u201d \u2014 an allusion to the diverse ethnicities under the USSR \u2013 will honor Mykola Mikhnovsky, an early proponent of Ukrainian independence.<\/p>\n<p>Another street recognizes the \u201cHeroes of Mariupol\u201d \u2014 fighters who held out for months against a devastating Russian campaign in that Sea of Azov port city that eventually fell. A street named for the Russian city of Volgograd is now called Roman Ratushnyi Street in honor of a 24-year-old civic and environmental activist who was killed in the war.<\/p>\n<p>A small street in northern Kyiv still bears Dostoevsky\u2019s name but soon will be named for Warhol, the late Pop Art visionary from the United States whose parents had family roots in Slovakia, across Ukraine\u2019s western border.<\/p>\n<p>Valeriy Sholomitsky, who has lived on Dostoevsky Street for nearly 40 years, said he could go either way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have under 20 houses here. That\u2019s very few,\u201d Sholomitsky said as he shoveled snow off the street in front of a fading address sign bearing the name of the Russian writer. He said Warhol was \u201cour artist\u201d \u2014 with heritage in eastern Europe:<\/p>\n<p>Now, \u201cit will be even better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it is right that we are changing many streets now, because we used to name them incorrectly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine is erasing the vestiges of Soviet and Russian influence from its public spaces by dismantling monuments and renaming hundreds of streets. 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