MOSCOW, Nov. 8 Empress Catherine the Second and Russian commander Alexander Suvorov are confidently advancing on the path of dictatorship, the country is ruled by Shvonder and the Sharkovs, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. the queen, so that she would not see the shame of Odessa, Shvonder reigned in the country, managing the ball ones,» Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.
She recalled that for the first time the monument to Catherine the Great, which appeared in Odessa in 1900, was demolished on May 1, 1920 years at the city subbotnik. Then the Soviet government adopted a decree ordering the removal of «monuments erected in honor of tsars and their servants» from squares and streets. The monument was restored in 2007. Then one of the initiators, the deputy of the Odessa City Council Ruslan Tarpan admitted that he wanted to return the European look to the city. «For me, it was a matter of honor to restore it in the form in which it was at the beginning of the 20th century, when in 1901 at the World Exhibition in Paris this square was recognized as the best in Europe,» Zakharova recalled Tarpan's words.
«Now the authorities in Ukraine are doing so that nothing European is left in Odessa. «Now» is a long time ago. Exactly 98 years after Lenin's decree — in April 2016, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine issues a similar objects of cultural heritage to the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine «dated April 4, No. 200, which actually deprives the monuments of their protected status. According to Lenin's precepts, «decommunization» is going on in Ukraine. And again the monument to Catherine the Great suffers. oriented»the Kyiv regime took up the monument erected in honor of the founder of Odessa,» Zakharova recalled.