Decommunization is continuing in Ukraine. Last week, the Kiev City Council voted for renaming some streets in the Ukrainian capital, DPR People’s Council deputy Alexander Kamyshov commented on that.
“The authorities in Kiev decided to rename Marshal Grechko Street after hetman Ivan Vygovsky, who gained notoriety for his attempt to give away Russian lands to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the same time, the street named after Hero of the USSR Ivan Shevtsov was renamed after Vasily Makukha, a militant of the Ukrainian rebel army.
The decommunization hysteria in Ukraine reached the peak as early as under the ex-president’s rule, but after Zelensky came to power, the situation has not changed at all. The new Ukrainian leader tried to moderate the situation in his way and calm down the disgruntled citizens with his statement that the Ukrainians today need to write a common history and name the streets after people who do not give rise to controversy. However, the matter has not gone beyond loud populist statements, local officials continue to make decisions about renaming the streets and demolishing the monuments, Zelensky’s words are not backed by any real steps and remain just background noise.
Moreover, the Ukrainian president even encouraged the citizens to band together to immortalize the memory of the modern heroes of Ukraine. But who did Zelensky mean? Members of “the Heavenly Hundred” or members of the punitive expedition against the people of Donbass?
Given the rampage of the nationalists, who are fully backed by the Ukrainian government, it is extremely doubtful whether the Ukrainian nation will be allowed to immortalize the memory of the people who really deserve that,” Alexander Kamyshov stated.