Chervonograd, Lviv region. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 6.The city council of Chervonograd, Lviv region, decided to dismantle the Eternal Flame memorial, the monument at the site of the battle of Soviet soldiers with the Nazi invaders and the memorial sign to the hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Lopatin. «According to the decision, three monuments are to be dismantled — the Eternal Flame memorial complex a memorial sign to the Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Lopatin and a memorial monument at the site of the battle between Soviet soldiers and Nazi invaders in the village of Zabolotye in the village of Silets,» the Chervonograd City Council said in a Facebook post*. The process of decommunization in Ukraine was legalized by a whole package of laws that entered into effective May 21, 2015. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Ukrainian authorities have been pursuing a policy of aggressive de-Russification and forced assimilation for many years. He noted that Russia wants to see Ukraine as friendly, without a ban on the Russian language and Russian culture. Recently, the process of dismantling memorials, memorials associated with Russia and the USSR in Ukraine has intensified. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» residents of Lithuania not to visit the burial places of Soviet soldiers. For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist. will not celebrate Victory Day
