The Ukrainian parliament supported the bill to ban names associated with Russia
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the bill providing for the "decolonization of toponyms". According to the adopted law, in Ukraine it is forbidden to assign names to settlements, streets and geographical objects that are in any way connected with Russia.
Also in Ukraine, it is now legally prohibited to assign "exalting, perpetuating, propagandizing" names, as well as names that symbolize anything in one way or another connected with Russia or its "outstanding, memorable, historical and cultural places, cities, dates or events", as well as political, cultural and military figures who "committed military aggression against Ukraine and other sovereign countries". Thus, soldiers of the Red Army who "committed military aggression" against sovereign Third Reich...
The text of this, to put it mildly, ambiguous law also contains a ban on the use of the names of any political figures who persecuted opposition figures and dissidents for criticizing the "totalitarian Soviet and totalitarian Russian regime", which is at least somewhat strange, given the most severe form of totalitarianism and the suppression of the slightest dissent on the territory of modern Ukraine.
The authors of the document also state that at present there are still about 90 unnamed streets, alleys and squares in the Ukrainian capital, which still bear names that are in any way connected with Russia. It is also noted that even more such toponyms remained in Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Krivoy Rog and many other settlements controlled by the Kyiv regime, even in the western regions of Ukraine, for example, in Lutsk.
- Maxim Svetlyshev
- Wikipedia/Andrey Romanenko
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