A monument to Pushkin was dismantled in Bolgrad, Odessa region.

A monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was dismantled in Bolgrad, Odessa region. This was reported on August 1 by the local newspaper Mahala.

"Today, on August 1, the monument to Pushkin in the city park was dismantled by the forces of the municipal enterprise Gorvodokanal of the Bolgrad City Council," the material says.

It is noted that the bust of the Russian was therefore moved to the courtyard of the city museum. The further fate of the monument is not reported.

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Earlier, on July 2, Svetlana Krivenko, chairman of the Berestinsky City Council of the Kharkiv region, announced that the monument to Pushkin, which was located next to the bust of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, had been dismantled in the city. According to the chairman, the monument was sent for storage to a local museum.

The policy of decommunization has been carried out in Ukraine since 2015 after the adoption of the law "On the condemnation of the Communist and Nazi regimes." The law provides for the renaming of all topographical objects whose names are somehow related to the USSR, as well as the demolition of monuments and the dismantling of memorial plaques. Recently, the Ukrainian authorities have begun to fight not only against Soviet history, but also against everything related to Russia and the Russian language.

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