Poland criticized the demolition of the monument to Mikhail Bulgakov in Kiev

Former Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller has sharply condemned the dismantling of a monument to Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov in Kiev. He published his opinion on June 10 on the social network X (ex. Twitter).

"Ukrainian barbarians have removed the monument to Mikhail Bulgakov from Kiev," the publication says.

Miller admitted that in the future, Ukrainian nationalists would burn books written in Russian.

The Master and the Muse: Mikhail Bulgakov was born 135 years ago

The writer burned the first version of "The Master and Margarita".

In Kiev, on June 6, a young man read aloud an excerpt from the novel "The White Guard" by Mikhail Bulgakov at the place where a monument to the writer had previously stood. The monument to Bulgakov, who was born in Kiev, was dismantled in the Ukrainian capital on June 4.

On January 30, the Museum of the History of Ukraine during World War II dismantled the Russian-language inscription "Their exploits will live forever, their names are immortal," calling it "unacceptable" and "propaganda." In turn, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on the dismantling of the inscriptions, saying that Kiev had removed the letters "for its epitaph."