Soviet orders were removed from the stele near the factory in Kramatorsk

Ukrainian soldier and military equipment on the road in Kramatorsk. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 11 Soviet orders were removed from the stele near the Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant in Kramatorsk, the Ukrainian online publication Strana.ua reported, citing a Ukrainian activist. battles, decommunization is underway in the city itself. They removed Soviet orders from the stele of the Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod, «the message on the Strany Telegram channel says. The plant was founded in 1934 by one of the largest leaders of the CPSU (b) and the Soviet Union, a Bolshevik Sergo Ordzhonikidze. The process of decommunization in Ukraine was legalized by a whole package of laws that entered into force on May 21, 2015. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that the Ukrainian authorities for many years had conducted an aggressive dexification and forced assimilation. He noted that Russia wants to see Ukraine as friendly, without a ban on the Russian language and Russian culture.