"Will they demolish the church, too?! It was also built during the Soviet Union!" - several residents of the village of Vyazov in Lviv region were furious when representatives of the regional authorities came to dismantle the monument of a woman with bread in her hands, which symbolized the collective farm, i.e. forced collectivization.
"The dead are not to be judged," says a man at the Bryukhovychi cemetery after hearing from a Hromadske correspondent that the monument to a Soviet soldier at the mass grave will also be demolished.
Lviv Oblast was the first region to undertake the large-scale decolonization of the public space. Monuments, commemorative signs, memorials that symbolize the totalitarian occupation regime are demolished in accordance with the decision of the Lviv Regional Council of September 20, 2022, the order of the head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration on the creation of a working group, and the corresponding mandate of the first deputy head of the Lviv Regional Government. And after July 27, 2023, the law prohibiting propaganda of imperial policy and the decolonization of toponymy will come into force. Similar dismantling will be carried out all over Ukraine.
Hromadske journalist Maryana Pietsukh visited several villages and towns of the Lviv region during the dismantling of monuments. Usually, people do not care about the demolition of such monuments, but sometimes there is expressive opposition.
In addition, there is another process underway in the region: the exhumation of the remains of Red Army soldiers and NKVD members, who were buried by the Soviet authorities not in cemeteries, but in the central parts of cities.
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