MOSCOW, January 5 The second of three monuments to the Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky was dismantled in Kharkov, only a pedestal remained from him, which was previously outlined by vandals with red paint, according to the Ukrainian edition KHARKIV Today.
Nikolai Ostrovsky became famous thanks to the novel «How the Steel Was Tempered».
«He (the monument to Ostrovsky — ed.) stood on Chernyshevskaya Street, near the children's library, which is named after the writer. Only the pedestal remained, which at the end of November last year, unknown painted with red paint,» the statement says. message on the publication's website.
According to the publication, there were three monuments to Nikolai Ostrovsky in the city. The first one stood near the school on Geroev Kharkiv Avenue, it was demolished back in February 2022, the second one was near the library on Chernyshevskaya Street, now the last one remains near the Armeyskaya metro station. A photograph published by the publication shows the inscription «Kat» on the pedestal in red paint, which was made by vandals last year.
The dismantling of monuments related to Soviet history, as well as the renaming of streets, began in Ukraine in 2015, when a law on decommunization was adopted. Recently, the Ukrainian authorities have begun to fight not only with Soviet history, but with everything connected with Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that the Ukrainian authorities have been pursuing a policy of aggressive de-Russification and forced assimilation for many years. Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to give a legal assessment of the facts of the demolition and desecration of monuments in Ukraine.