Monuments to Bulgakov, Akhmatova and Glinka may be dismantled in Kyiv
30 October 10:56A meeting of the Kyiv City Council’s working group on decommunization took place, which considered the issue of dismantling monuments to writers Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova, as well as composer Mahailo Glinka. This was reported by Kyiv City Council member Lyudmyla Kovalevska, Komersant Ukrainian reports.
According to her, now de-Russification and decommunization are in trend, it has acquired signs of institutionalization and there are many more fighters.
“In this fervor, the main thing is not to turn into figures of the so-called Chinese Cultural Revolution. Therefore, in my work, I listen to real experts in this field-the staff of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory and expert historians who have joined this crucial process. To those people who have always fought for our national identity at the call of their hearts. And to my common sense,” Kyiv City Council member Liudmyla Kovalevska wrote on Facebook.
She then said that she had voted for the following decisions:
– dismantling the monument to Akhmatova in the City Garden;
– dismantling and moving the monument to Glinka from the City Garden for storage, as it is a monument of national importance;
– dismantling the monument to Bulgakov on Andriyivskyi Descent.
As for VDNKh, Liudmyla Kovalevska agrees with historians that “this is a holistic complex, interesting from a historical point of view, and the most appropriate place for the Museum of Totalitarian Propaganda, which will definitely be created there after the war.”
Now the Kyiv City Council as a whole must vote on the decision to dismantle the monuments.
It is worth recalling that a few months ago, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, after a detailed study and analysis, concluded that all monuments and place names in Bulgakov’s honor “are propaganda for Russian imperial policy.”