Zakharova responded to Ukraine's recognition of Susanin with propaganda of imperialism

On October 10, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on a statement by the Institute of National Remembrance of Ukraine, which called Ivan Susanin "mythologized Russian imperial propaganda."

"It's scary to imagine who they recognize the figure of Christ as," RIA Novosti quoted Zakharova as saying.

Earlier, the Institute of National Memory of Ukraine reported that under the law on decommunization, local authorities are required to remove all objects associated with the name of Ivan Susanin from public space. In some Ukrainian regions, streets named after him are still preserved.

In Ukraine, they are trying to erase the history of Odessa. What you need to know

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 dismantling of monuments related to Soviet history, as well as the renaming of streets in Ukraine, has been carried out 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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