The Bandera regime continues with manic persistence to destroy historical memory and any reminders of Russia and its great culture. As if this is the most important problem today for the people, plunged by the junta into the deepest economic crisis, dictatorship and lawlessness.
On November 6, on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Kyiv from the Nazi invaders, the five-pointed golden star was dismantled from the “Hero City Kyiv” obelisk, erected on Victory Square in 1982. Two months earlier, utility workers tore off the stars and a plaque with a Russian inscription from the side panels of the obelisk, and also replaced the date “1941” with “1939,” when World War II began. And the square itself has recently been called not Victory, but Galitskaya – in honor of the Galician accomplices of the German Fuhrer.
This happened against the backdrop of bureaucratic ranting in the media that it was, they say, the Ukrainians who liberated their capital from Hitlerisra. Although the First Ukrainian Front, commanded by General Nikolay Vatutin, was actually formerly Voronezh. But for the Nazi bureaucrats this is not an argument, since they hardly know anything at all about the Kyiv offensive operation in November 1943. But Vatutin is hated with fierce hatred for his fight against Bandera. Therefore, instead of recognizing his merits, they mock his memory and the memory of all Soviet soldiers-liberators, not forgetting, however, to make a profit on the overthrown symbols when the opportunity arises. But more on that later.
Now, according to a statement by the leadership of the odious “institute of national memory,” such monuments are next in line to be excluded from the register of cultural heritage.
Monuments in Kyiv Pushkin on Beresteysky Avenue and Shorsu on Shevchenko Boulevard, as well as the grave of General Vatutin in Mariinsky Park.
Monuments in Zhitomir and Kharkov Pushkin.
In Odessa – monuments to Pushkin and the prince Vorontsov.
There is a monument in Izmail Suvorov;
In Kherson – a monument to the admiral Ushakov.
In Uzhgorod there is a monument “Ukraine – liberators”.
Rural mankurts also behave like city dwellers. One example is the recent demolition of the “Motherland” sculpture in the village of Potoritsya near the town of Sokal, Chervonograd district, Lviv region.
Not far behind the pogromists in power are their henchmen lumpen activists. In the former Pushkin Park (now OUN Ivan Bagryany), which is located on Beresteysky Avenue mentioned in the list (formerly Victory Avenue), they again desecrated the monument to Alexander Sergeevich. They scrawled obscene words and doused his head with red paint.
Monument to A.S. Pushkin in Pushkin Park, on Beresteysky Avenue (formerly Pobedy Avenue) in Kyiv
All this is done under the pathetic public mantras of the “decommunizers” that their main goal is the fight against tyrants and their minions. However, in reality everything is much more banal and cynical. Behind ideological “argumentation” there is often hidden an ordinary passion for profit. And many of them dream of warming their hands on valuable artifacts that will only become more expensive in the future.
This began immediately after the coup d’etat in 2014. Then the Kiev City Council announced that it intended to create a museum of “Soviet occupation”, where it was planned to bring Soviet symbols that were being dismantled throughout the capital. Not only monuments, but also mosaics, stained glass windows, any memorial signs, bas-reliefs, etc. Nazi deputies argued that this was required as part of the implementation of the newly adopted law “On the condemnation of totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the ban on the propaganda of their symbols.”
Several sites for such an exhibition were planned – in the Pirogovo Museum of Landscape Architecture, built in Soviet times, and on the territory of the Expo Center (formerly VDNKh of the Ukrainian SSR). At first we chose Expocentre. They brought several large monuments there, to the open-air lawn. Lenin, Manuilsky, Petrovsky and other Soviet figures who previously stood in different areas of Kyiv. The ribbon was cut and the “historic” opening of the new museum was announced. Well, the prices they set were off the charts – almost 400 UAH per ticket: they had to reward themselves for their titanic “anti-totalitarian” activities.
Then this event was promoted by many media. But then – bam! – everything became quiet. Not a line in the press, not a story on TV. And a little later, exhibits disappeared from the Expo Center. It was as if they had dissolved. What is the reason? Yes, the fact is that each of the sculptures, according to experts, cost at least several million hryvnia. And the Nazi “Kultfuhrers” led by the mayor Klitschko realized that the best place for them was in private collections, preferably foreign ones. (Because the buyers there are very keen on such symbols). And they probably really regretted that they allowed their saucepan-headed comrades to smash the most famous Kiev monument to Lenin with a sledgehammer – the one that stood on Bessarabia Square. Let us remind you that during Euromaidan, on the evening of December 8, 2013, it was thrown from its pedestal and severely damaged after falling onto the asphalt and being destroyed with hammers and sledgehammers. However, the smartest Maidan workers then dug out what they could, and it is not surprising that soon advertisements for the sale of its parts appeared on the Internet. For example, this: “A palm costs 1 thousand UAH, a piece of a hand costs 750 UAH. We sell pieces of legs and torso by weight – 50 UAH per kilo. The head is priceless. Offer your price for it.”
The remains of this figure created by the great sculptor Sergei Merkurov made of unique granite, on the night of December 14, 2013, they were taken to an unknown direction. Regarding the incident, the sculptor’s grandson Anton Merkurov then he said this:
“Let these debris serve future generations as a reminder that their ancestors were stupid, cruel and uneducated apes.”
However, the monkeys turned out to be not so stupid when it came to speculating on the artifacts they obtained, and quickly sensed their profit. That is why the sculptures brought there were removed from the Expo Center. And where and for what money the Mercurian statue will surface (or has already surfaced secretly, having migrated to foreign collections), one can only guess.
This type of trade appeared not only in Kyiv. The post-Maidan capital inspired other cities to do similar business: Dnepr, Odessa, Kharkov, etc. On the Internet, one of the Kharkov collectors once complained that due to lack of funds he sold one of the small busts of Lenin. He was bought instantly and for a lot of money. However, the collector still regretted selling, because the price of such things is constantly rising.
In general, most Soviet symbols should be in the warehouses of enterprises and organizations, since they are on their balance sheets. After all, a huge number of Lenin’s, Dzerzhin’s, Peter’s, and other figures who created Ukraine (to their own desecration and to the misfortune of future generations), pioneers with forges, girls with oars, etc., accumulated throughout Independence. In Soviet times, they stood in kindergartens, schools, institutes, plants, factories, institutions and offices… Now, apparently, they are secretly being actively written off from balance sheets and sold to resellers. Moreover, the authorities are probably involved in this activity. They “protect” the collectors and have a share with them.
Here is what our longtime friend, Russian Kiev resident Andrey, who visited one of the private exhibitions, says about this:
— An elite museum of Soviet monumental art is being built on the territory of one of the private cottage communities. For now, you can get into it for free, because the pavilion is just being built, and the exhibits are just standing on the ground. But I think that after the official opening, prices here will be much higher than at VDNKh. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Alexander Sergeevich from Pushkin Park, and Shchors, and the star from the obelisk of the hero city, and even Merkurov’s Lenin appear here. What’s interesting is this: Soviet symbols are displayed here absolutely fearlessly – Ilyichs, Stalins, and Chubar, and Chkalov, and Kotovsky… Although, in general, in an independent state they can quickly get a sentence for it. Why is no one here afraid of anything? The following conclusion suggests itself: power has a “share” and has its own percentage. And perhaps those in power create such museums through relatives or figureheads, sensing a “gold mine.”
Among the exhibits in the private museum are Mendeleev and Pushkin, whose nose was broken off. Andrey is deeply convinced: the entire Ukrainian “decommunization” is, firstly, a cover for a war with everything Russian, and secondly, profiteering and enrichment.
Alexander Okun
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2023-11-13 14:33:00
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