After killing tens of thousands and erasing Mariupol, Russia now seeks to resurrect statue of its butcher in city’s center
Where 120,000 may have died, Moscow prepares to honor the man whose troops once bathed Ukraine in blood.
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Only Ukraine can slay the Soviet “victory myth” that fuels Putin’s war
As a USSR founder, Ukraine must condemn its Soviet past and dismantle the WWII dragon powering Putin's imperial ambitions.
Russian war crimes push cultural break but 30% of Ukrainians still tied to Russian culture, expert says
Despite documenting over 150,000 Russian war crimes, a significant minority of Ukrainians remains reluctant to cut cultural ties with Russia, creating potential vulnerabilities in Ukraine's decolonization efforts.
“Decolonization will not be stopped”: Ukraine expands movement against Russian cultural imperialism
Progressive decolonization discourse has ignored Russia's history of imperialism and cultural appropriation, but Ukraine is determined to challenge false narratives by rewriting its place in the world's museums.
Ukraine’s Cabinet backs removal of Soviet monuments from heritage list to dismantle them
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers backs the decision to de-register and dismantle monuments of Pushkin, Shchors, and other Russian and Soviet figures from the national cultural heritage list as part of decommunization efforts.
Decommunization: Kyiv City dismantled over 60 Soviet monuments, 56 more slated for removal
The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv is actively decommunizing its public space, having removed 60+ Soviet monuments and targeting 56 more, according to local authorities.
Kyiv’s iconic Mother Motherland monument to shed Soviet coat of arms
Mother Motherland, Kyiv's iconic metal monument which is the tallest in Europe, will have its Soviet coat of…
Poland tears down four communist-era monuments to Red Army amid decommunization of public space
For years, Poland has been removing from the public space the symbols of Moscow’s past occupation, taking away…
Demolishing monuments not enough to destroy post-Soviet nostalgia, but property rights help | 30 Years of Freedom, p.1
How strongly were Communists supported in post-Soviet countries after the fall of the USSR? Do the populations of…
Five secrets of Ukraine encapsulated in its architecture
In its long history, Ukraine went through periods of poverty and glory, repressions and renaissance, stagnation and battle.…