Kiev authorities dismantled a bust of General Kovpak in the Park of Glory

A bust of twice Hero of the USSR, partisan commander Sidor Kovpak, has been dismantled in Kiev's Park of Glory. This was reported on December 4 by the Ukrainian edition of "Public. News", referring to the data of the profile Commission of the Kiev city Council.

Demolition of the monument was carried out within the framework of the so-called decommunization. Where the bust will be stored after dismantling, it is not reported.

In early July, the city authorities in a vote supported the demolition of the bust to Kovpak. Before that, in June 2023, vandals also put the word "occupier" on it. Before that, in 2016, the bust of the warlord was dismantled in one of Kyiv schools.

Sidor Kovpak was one of the leaders of the partisan movement on the territory of Ukraine and the RSFSR during the Great Patriotic War.

Earlier in the day, the Odessa city council decided to dismantle the monument to poet Alexander Pushkin. Ukrainian journalists noted that this monument was erected at the expense of citizens in 1889 and is protected by UNESCO. Enes Karakhanov, chairman of the International Center for Combating Crime and Terrorism and international political scientist, commented to Izvestia that the Ukrainian authorities and the West, despite all attempts, will not be able to make people dislike and forget Russian culture.

Before that, on November 20, it was reported about the demolition of the monument to Soviet spy Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya in the town of Belgorod-Dnestrovskyi in Odessa region. The monument stood in the yard of one of the schools. The mass media pointed out that after the start of the special military operation, Ukrainian activists had repeatedly asked the local authorities to dismantle it. The decision to demolish it was approved in November 2023

The policy of so-called decolonization was a continuation of "decommunization" in Ukraine, which began to be carried out since 2015 within the framework of the law "On condemnation of communist and Nazi regimes". It prescribes demolishing monuments, dismantling memorial plaques, and renaming all topographical objects whose names are associated with the USSR or Russia. This policy became especially acute after the start of the Russian Federation's special operation to defend Donbass in February 2022.