The dismantling of the Soviet star on the Marsovo Pole war memorial in Lvov.. Archival photoMOSCOW, 19 Aug. The authorities of Lvov decided to rebury the remains of Soviet soldiers from the Marsovo Pole memorial and create a memorial complex of heroes of Ukraine on this site, the city council said. The decision was made by the Executive Committee of the Lviv City Council. A memorial complex of the Heroes of Ukraine will be built on this site in memory of the Ukrainian military who gave their lives for the independence of Ukraine,» the message on the website of the Lviv City Council reads.
Another monument to a Red Army soldier was dismantled in Ukraine. The city council noted that the new memorial would include military burials of «heroes of Ukraine, a memory park and a memorial square.» The executive committee also determined the procedure and procedure for obtaining appropriate permits from state authorities, and determining the very month for the reburial of Soviet military personnel,» the city council added. The Field of Mars in Lviv was created in 1974, it is located on Mechnikov Street near the Lychakiv cemetery. Initially, it was part of a military cemetery with the graves of soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army who died during the First World War. More than 3 thousand Soviet soldiers who fell during the Great Patriotic War are buried on the Field of Mars. At the end of October 2021, as part of the decommunization policy, the memorial sign «Order of the Patriotic War» was dismantled at the memorial. Earlier, the Lviv authorities decided to rename 20 more streets «as part of the decolonization of place names.» The renaming also affected streets named after the inventor of the periodic table of chemical elements, Dmitry Mendeleev, and Nobel laureate in physiology, Ivan Pavlov. what monuments were destroyed in Ukraine Europe, in a Russophobic frenzy, destroys and dismantles monuments to Soviet soldiers-liberators. Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia announce new plans to destroy memorials. This trend originates in Ukraine, where for many years monuments to soldiers, poets, generals, victims of the Holocaust have been destroyed by all possible means.
