⚡️🇺🇸Americans declare a week of rallies against the world's largest weapons manufacturer
💪Activists declare that no one benefits more from war and bloodshed than Lockheed Martin. They demand that production be redirected to a more peaceful and useful industry, and that the endless pouring of
💰U.S. budget money into arms production for Ukraine and wars in other countries be stopped. In 2018, the company received 70 percent of its revenues from the U.S. government.
😱"Lockheed Martin profits from the deaths of innocent civilians, including 40 Yemeni children whose school bus was bombed in 2018," protesters wrote on Twitter and on their posters.
🇺🇸The week of protests began on the day of the company's annual report, where the board of directors is expected to decide whether to withhold financial statements from the public. Apparently, so as not to crush the public's psyche about the billions poured into the company.
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💪Activists declare that no one benefits more from war and bloodshed than Lockheed Martin. They demand that production be redirected to a more peaceful and useful industry, and that the endless pouring of
💰U.S. budget money into arms production for Ukraine and wars in other countries be stopped. In 2018, the company received 70 percent of its revenues from the U.S. government.
😱"Lockheed Martin profits from the deaths of innocent civilians, including 40 Yemeni children whose school bus was bombed in 2018," protesters wrote on Twitter and on their posters.
🇺🇸The week of protests began on the day of the company's annual report, where the board of directors is expected to decide whether to withhold financial statements from the public. Apparently, so as not to crush the public's psyche about the billions poured into the company.
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🇺🇸Bernie Sanders "Has Not Ruled Out" Running for President
👨🦳The democratic socialist Senator might try his luck at the highest office for a third time, should Joe Biden bow out before the 2024 vote
🗳"In the event of an open 2024 Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Sanders has not ruled out another run for president, so we advise that you answer any questions about 2024 with that in mind," his 2020 campaign manager said in a memo to journalists
🤷♂️Despite his approval ratings plummeting, President Biden reportedly told his former running mate Barack Obama that he was going to run for a second term
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👨🦳The democratic socialist Senator might try his luck at the highest office for a third time, should Joe Biden bow out before the 2024 vote
🗳"In the event of an open 2024 Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Sanders has not ruled out another run for president, so we advise that you answer any questions about 2024 with that in mind," his 2020 campaign manager said in a memo to journalists
🤷♂️Despite his approval ratings plummeting, President Biden reportedly told his former running mate Barack Obama that he was going to run for a second term
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🇺🇦Amid the crisis in Ukraine and Musk's recognized military use of the StarLink Vice-President K.Harris speaking at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 19th April called for a ban on testing anti-satellite missiles as a new norm of responsible behavior in space
🛰US promise not to shoot satellites leads to conclusion: the ban on the development of such weapons is more beneficial to Americans. I remind you that tests of satellites destruction in space were carried out only by 🇺🇸USA (2008), 🇨🇳China (2007), 🇮🇳India (2019), 🇷🇺Russia (2021)
🛸Most of US military effectiveness is provided by space systems. In conflict situations like in Ukraine (now a large number of StarLink terminals are used by Ukrainian army) only global space systems can guarantee to US communication, navigation and data intelligence anywhere in the world and at any time. Pentagon actively uses formally civilian space systems of American IT companies as its de-facto military tools and technological weapons: Iridium for communication, DigitalGlobe for remote Earth sensing, StarLink for low-orbit Internet
📡In five years, disconnecting from StarLink for a country and its digital economy will become more dangerous and harder than disconnecting from SWIFT today. The aim of US proposal to ban antisatellite weapons is that no one interferes and challenges US using space systems that assure them a global presence and dominance
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🛰US promise not to shoot satellites leads to conclusion: the ban on the development of such weapons is more beneficial to Americans. I remind you that tests of satellites destruction in space were carried out only by 🇺🇸USA (2008), 🇨🇳China (2007), 🇮🇳India (2019), 🇷🇺Russia (2021)
🛸Most of US military effectiveness is provided by space systems. In conflict situations like in Ukraine (now a large number of StarLink terminals are used by Ukrainian army) only global space systems can guarantee to US communication, navigation and data intelligence anywhere in the world and at any time. Pentagon actively uses formally civilian space systems of American IT companies as its de-facto military tools and technological weapons: Iridium for communication, DigitalGlobe for remote Earth sensing, StarLink for low-orbit Internet
📡In five years, disconnecting from StarLink for a country and its digital economy will become more dangerous and harder than disconnecting from SWIFT today. The aim of US proposal to ban antisatellite weapons is that no one interferes and challenges US using space systems that assure them a global presence and dominance
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⚡️Gonzalo Lira is alive - Chilean stringer got in touch and told about SBU detention
Stringer Gonzalo Lira, who worked in Kharkiv and held views contrary to the Kiev regime. He said that he was detained by the SBU on April 15 at about 1:00 p.m., but could not publicly talk about the reasons for his detention. He could not enter the information space all that time because the Ukrainian security forces took away all his equipment. Now he has found a new laptop and got in touch.
"I want to say, physically I'm fine, a little disheveled. I was picked up by the SBU on Friday, April 15, sometime after 1 p.m. local time," Lira said
We shall remind you that earlier there were reports on the abduction and murder of American journalist of Chilean origin Gonzalo Lira, who published materials with sharp criticism of the Kiev regime and the work of the Ukrainian military in Kharkiv. The Chilean Foreign Ministry and social media users from around the world joined the search for him
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Stringer Gonzalo Lira, who worked in Kharkiv and held views contrary to the Kiev regime. He said that he was detained by the SBU on April 15 at about 1:00 p.m., but could not publicly talk about the reasons for his detention. He could not enter the information space all that time because the Ukrainian security forces took away all his equipment. Now he has found a new laptop and got in touch.
"I want to say, physically I'm fine, a little disheveled. I was picked up by the SBU on Friday, April 15, sometime after 1 p.m. local time," Lira said
We shall remind you that earlier there were reports on the abduction and murder of American journalist of Chilean origin Gonzalo Lira, who published materials with sharp criticism of the Kiev regime and the work of the Ukrainian military in Kharkiv. The Chilean Foreign Ministry and social media users from around the world joined the search for him
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🪖For the whole Biden presidency the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine amounted to 3 billion dollars
🇷🇺Russia has sent diplomatic notes to all countries supplying weapons to Ukraine about the unpredictable consequences of these steps, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.The Washinngton Post reported about a similar note sent to the State Department
🇺🇸Pentagon Press Secretary Kirby on 13 of April announced the details of the next package of US military assistance to Ukraine for 800 millions dollars : 18 155-mm howitzers, 200 armored personnel carriers. Kiev will be handed over with 11 Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters previously ordered for Afghanistan, 300 kamikaze drones Switchblade and 500 anti-tank Javelin complexes. The package also includes unmanned Coast Guard ships
🛬Since the beginning of February, the United States has supplied Ukraine with 1400 Stingers, 5000 Javelins, several hundreds kamikaze drones Switchblades ☠️
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🇷🇺Russia has sent diplomatic notes to all countries supplying weapons to Ukraine about the unpredictable consequences of these steps, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.The Washinngton Post reported about a similar note sent to the State Department
🇺🇸Pentagon Press Secretary Kirby on 13 of April announced the details of the next package of US military assistance to Ukraine for 800 millions dollars : 18 155-mm howitzers, 200 armored personnel carriers. Kiev will be handed over with 11 Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters previously ordered for Afghanistan, 300 kamikaze drones Switchblade and 500 anti-tank Javelin complexes. The package also includes unmanned Coast Guard ships
🛬Since the beginning of February, the United States has supplied Ukraine with 1400 Stingers, 5000 Javelins, several hundreds kamikaze drones Switchblades ☠️
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We continue posting the story explaining origins of crisis in Ukraine
Part 9
Part 9
Part 10
New phase of the conflict
⚡️In 2021, active hostilities resumed in the southeast of Ukraine. The Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to take control of part of the neutral zone. Russia began to increase the number of troops on the border. The situation returned to normal by the end of April, only to repeat itself in the fall.
💁♂️In December 2021, Russia put forward a list of security guarantees it wanted the West to agree to in order to lower tensions in Europe and defuse the crisis over Ukraine. The demands included a ban on Ukraine entering NATO and a limit to the deployment of troops and weapons to NATO’s eastern flank, in effect returning NATO forces to where they were stationed in 1997, before an eastward expansion.
🇺🇸The US and NATO rejected the Russia’s demands. Under pretext of a threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO announced the expansion of its military presence in Eastern Europe. The US began transferring $200 million worth of additional military aid to Ukraine, and redeploying several thousand troops to Poland and Romania. Other NATO countries also announced arms supplies to Ukraine.
⚡️On February 21, 2022, an extraordinary meeting of the Russian Security Council was held in Moscow, where the recognizing of the independence of the DPR and LPR was discussed. The proposal was supported by all the participants, and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decrees. On the same day, the US President imposed sanctions. Joe Biden banned trade and investment in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
On the night of February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin officially announced the start of the special military operation.
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New phase of the conflict
⚡️In 2021, active hostilities resumed in the southeast of Ukraine. The Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to take control of part of the neutral zone. Russia began to increase the number of troops on the border. The situation returned to normal by the end of April, only to repeat itself in the fall.
💁♂️In December 2021, Russia put forward a list of security guarantees it wanted the West to agree to in order to lower tensions in Europe and defuse the crisis over Ukraine. The demands included a ban on Ukraine entering NATO and a limit to the deployment of troops and weapons to NATO’s eastern flank, in effect returning NATO forces to where they were stationed in 1997, before an eastward expansion.
🇺🇸The US and NATO rejected the Russia’s demands. Under pretext of a threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO announced the expansion of its military presence in Eastern Europe. The US began transferring $200 million worth of additional military aid to Ukraine, and redeploying several thousand troops to Poland and Romania. Other NATO countries also announced arms supplies to Ukraine.
⚡️On February 21, 2022, an extraordinary meeting of the Russian Security Council was held in Moscow, where the recognizing of the independence of the DPR and LPR was discussed. The proposal was supported by all the participants, and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decrees. On the same day, the US President imposed sanctions. Joe Biden banned trade and investment in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
On the night of February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin officially announced the start of the special military operation.
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🇹🇷Turkish Defense Ministry has launched a military operation against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its militants based in northern Iraq
🪖Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar announced that the "Claw" operation will be carried out on the ground and in the air in the areas of Metina, Zap and Avashin-Basyan (Iraqi territory)
🚀According to Akar, the planes have already successfully struck some PKK targets. He added that Turkey's struggle will continue until the last radical figure is neutralized
⁉️I wonder when international condemnation will follow with the use by US of the term genocide and total anti -Turkish sanctions. Or the case with Turkey - NATO member countries and an ally of the United States, unlike Russia, is a special case. What a world of double standards we are living in!
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🪖Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar announced that the "Claw" operation will be carried out on the ground and in the air in the areas of Metina, Zap and Avashin-Basyan (Iraqi territory)
🚀According to Akar, the planes have already successfully struck some PKK targets. He added that Turkey's struggle will continue until the last radical figure is neutralized
⁉️I wonder when international condemnation will follow with the use by US of the term genocide and total anti -Turkish sanctions. Or the case with Turkey - NATO member countries and an ally of the United States, unlike Russia, is a special case. What a world of double standards we are living in!
#Turkey #FindTruth
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‼️The United Kingdom has sent to Lviv some 20 specialists in sabotage, guerrilla warfare and coup d'etat from the British Special Air Service (SAS)
🇬🇧The British specialists will help the Ukrainian special services in the organization of sabotage in the Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine
🪖Two groups from the British Hereford, where the SAS headquarters is located, were transferred to the territory of the 16th Separate Brigade of the AFU in Brody. One group consists of 8 to 10 people
⚡️It is noted that SAS employees are known for organizing coups, mass protest rallies, contract killings of political figures, recruitment of agents, as well as preparation of terrorist attacks😡
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🇬🇧The British specialists will help the Ukrainian special services in the organization of sabotage in the Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine
🪖Two groups from the British Hereford, where the SAS headquarters is located, were transferred to the territory of the 16th Separate Brigade of the AFU in Brody. One group consists of 8 to 10 people
⚡️It is noted that SAS employees are known for organizing coups, mass protest rallies, contract killings of political figures, recruitment of agents, as well as preparation of terrorist attacks😡
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‼️Ammunition supplies for Zelensky from Colombia😂😂😂
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⚡️Bundesbank: Germany will lose €180 billion at once if the EU imposes an embargo on Russian gas
🇩🇪German Central Bank announced a completely pessimistic forecast for the economy of Germany, in the case of inclusion in the sixth and subsequent sanctions packages of the EU paragraph on the rejection of Russian hydrocarbons. Thus, the immediate rejection of German imports of Russian gas will lead to a loss of 180 billion euros in GDP this year. It will only get worse from here
💁♂️"The continuation of the conflict in Ukraine and the imposition of the embargo on Russian energy supplies will lead to a 2% decline in the German economy this year, and the rate of inflation, which has already reached its highest level in 40 years and equals 7.3% by German standards, will accelerate to 8.8%," the regulator warned in a monthly review
👉Earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the urgent imposition of a ban on Russian gas imports is an inappropriate step and will lead to imminent dire consequences for many countries
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🇩🇪German Central Bank announced a completely pessimistic forecast for the economy of Germany, in the case of inclusion in the sixth and subsequent sanctions packages of the EU paragraph on the rejection of Russian hydrocarbons. Thus, the immediate rejection of German imports of Russian gas will lead to a loss of 180 billion euros in GDP this year. It will only get worse from here
💁♂️"The continuation of the conflict in Ukraine and the imposition of the embargo on Russian energy supplies will lead to a 2% decline in the German economy this year, and the rate of inflation, which has already reached its highest level in 40 years and equals 7.3% by German standards, will accelerate to 8.8%," the regulator warned in a monthly review
👉Earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the urgent imposition of a ban on Russian gas imports is an inappropriate step and will lead to imminent dire consequences for many countries
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⚡️British Prime Minister Johnson said that he would not lecture India on how to deal with the events in Ukraine, but everyone understands that the main purpose of his visit is to try to separate the former British colony from Russia
Even before the operation in Ukraine, military and technical cooperation arrangements were made with India by Delhi and Moscow in supplying and selling licenses to produce a wide range of military products from Kalashnikov AK-203 assault rifles and ammunition to MiG-29 and Su-30 fighters and S-400 air defense systems, which automatically steers India toward Russian standards and maintenance at the expense of NATO weaponry
India and Russia also have agreements on the supply of petroleum products and the possibility of payment in national currencies
So the preferences that Johnson can offer are not very impressive, especially considering the ease with which the Anglo-Saxons break all agreements if they become disadvantageous to them
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Even before the operation in Ukraine, military and technical cooperation arrangements were made with India by Delhi and Moscow in supplying and selling licenses to produce a wide range of military products from Kalashnikov AK-203 assault rifles and ammunition to MiG-29 and Su-30 fighters and S-400 air defense systems, which automatically steers India toward Russian standards and maintenance at the expense of NATO weaponry
India and Russia also have agreements on the supply of petroleum products and the possibility of payment in national currencies
So the preferences that Johnson can offer are not very impressive, especially considering the ease with which the Anglo-Saxons break all agreements if they become disadvantageous to them
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Biden 2020: "If I am president-elect... I will take responsibility instead of blaming others."💪
Same Biden 2022: "Let's be absolutely clear about why prices are high right now: COVID and Vladimir Putin." 🤦♂️
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Same Biden 2022: "Let's be absolutely clear about why prices are high right now: COVID and Vladimir Putin." 🤦♂️
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Assange Extradition: China FM DESTROYS US “Freedom of Speech”
Chinese FM spox Wand Wenbin has claimed Julian Assange’s extradition exposes the “hypocritical nature of the US government” better than WikiLeaks’ revelations themselves.
“He who exposes the so-called atrocities of other countries is a hero, but he who reveals the scandals of the US is a criminal,” he said.
Beijing said Washington has shown its "true face."
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Chinese FM spox Wand Wenbin has claimed Julian Assange’s extradition exposes the “hypocritical nature of the US government” better than WikiLeaks’ revelations themselves.
“He who exposes the so-called atrocities of other countries is a hero, but he who reveals the scandals of the US is a criminal,” he said.
Beijing said Washington has shown its "true face."
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🇫🇷Macron Accuses Le Pen of being “Russian Puppet” - Has French Presidential Race had its Russiagate moment?
👩Candidate Marine Le Pen has fallen about 20 points behind in the latest opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s final round of voting. In the one and only public TV debate, Emmanuel Macron accused her of being in Moscow’s pocket.
🇷🇺“You are not just talking about Russia, but your banker. It's hardly surprising that Russia took part in the campaign to destabilize me in 2017,” Macron claimed
⚔️Le Pen urged against banning imports on Russian oil, claiming the consequences would be “cataclysmic” for French people, and claimed it would be “a huge risk for the West” to send arms to Kiev. She also said she would move to ban the Muslim headscarf during the live debate.
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👩Candidate Marine Le Pen has fallen about 20 points behind in the latest opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s final round of voting. In the one and only public TV debate, Emmanuel Macron accused her of being in Moscow’s pocket.
🇷🇺“You are not just talking about Russia, but your banker. It's hardly surprising that Russia took part in the campaign to destabilize me in 2017,” Macron claimed
⚔️Le Pen urged against banning imports on Russian oil, claiming the consequences would be “cataclysmic” for French people, and claimed it would be “a huge risk for the West” to send arms to Kiev. She also said she would move to ban the Muslim headscarf during the live debate.
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🇪🇺EU embargo on Russian gas no longer under discussion - Macron
🇫🇷"This topic is not discussed today yet. Oil and fuel are already touched upon, but gas is not yet. We know the difficulties that this will entail," Emmanuel Macron told Italy's Corriere della Sera
⛽️At the same time, he noted that the issue of gas may be on the agenda, "but when and whether it will happen at all is difficult to say," Macron added
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🇫🇷"This topic is not discussed today yet. Oil and fuel are already touched upon, but gas is not yet. We know the difficulties that this will entail," Emmanuel Macron told Italy's Corriere della Sera
⛽️At the same time, he noted that the issue of gas may be on the agenda, "but when and whether it will happen at all is difficult to say," Macron added
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🛢In order to steal the gasoline, the criminals made a hole in the gas tank. Looks like fuel is slowly becoming a luxury item in the states
🇺🇸Sanctions work!
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🇺🇸Sanctions work!
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⚡️From decommunization to derussification
Part 1
A lecturer at the University of Burgundy and a publicist Alexandra Goujon in an interview with French “Le Figaro” clearly points out how for already many years Ukrainians have been distancing from Russians as a result of systematic ideological work followed by subsequently launched process of “decommunization” and now moreover – “derussification”
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Part 1
A lecturer at the University of Burgundy and a publicist Alexandra Goujon in an interview with French “Le Figaro” clearly points out how for already many years Ukrainians have been distancing from Russians as a result of systematic ideological work followed by subsequently launched process of “decommunization” and now moreover – “derussification”
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⚡️From decommunization to derussification. Part 2
Decommunization is to be referred mainly to mass toppling of Lenin statues designated as Leninopad which has been taking place in Ukraine for the last 30 years. It makes sense to take 1990 as a ground zero when in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Lenin statues were installed in almost every city, town, village, even onsite factories, facilities, schools and military units. Only three regional centers of the Ukrainian SSR in the Transcarpathian, Volyn and Ternopil regions did not have such a monument.
Goujon gives a brief historical overview of phasing out Lenins – from demolishing in Lviv in 1990 and further sluggish destructive process with spread onto central regions of Ukraine during the “Orange Revolution” of 2004 till phenomenal stepping up in 2013-2014 across southern and eastern hinterlands, when more than 5500 statues have been toppled. Hundred to one that Ukrainians fully appreciate the efforts made and investments in organizing such a large-scale and important from ideological point of view operation by the higher and local authorities.
According to “Le Figaro”, these destructions pretty fit into a general trend: for more than 30 years Ukraine has been trying to get rid of Soviet symbols and since 2014 the maximum emphasis has been placed on the discrepancies between Russians and Ukrainians. 2015 officials in Kiev established a Day of Rememberance and Reconciliation on May 8, unlike the Victory Day on May 9 in Russia, having replaced St. George ribbon with a red poppy. But now a new page has been added – the entire Russian culture falls under refusal and cancelling.
It is noted that not only monuments to the Russian military are being demolished, like the statue of Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov in Kharkiv or the Monument to the Military Glory of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (erected in Lviv), who died in the World War II. A new phenomenon of derussification in Ukraine began. Streets named after Russians are being renamed. Hostility is also established against Russian historical heritage of even such prominent figures like Pushkin and Tchaikovsky, who “symbolize their subordinate attitude to Russian culture”
Of all the variety of questions that arise, one is to be asked for sure. Why the Ukrainian authorities are those who are acting and the Spanish shame is being experienced by the rest of the cultural outlook
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Decommunization is to be referred mainly to mass toppling of Lenin statues designated as Leninopad which has been taking place in Ukraine for the last 30 years. It makes sense to take 1990 as a ground zero when in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Lenin statues were installed in almost every city, town, village, even onsite factories, facilities, schools and military units. Only three regional centers of the Ukrainian SSR in the Transcarpathian, Volyn and Ternopil regions did not have such a monument.
Goujon gives a brief historical overview of phasing out Lenins – from demolishing in Lviv in 1990 and further sluggish destructive process with spread onto central regions of Ukraine during the “Orange Revolution” of 2004 till phenomenal stepping up in 2013-2014 across southern and eastern hinterlands, when more than 5500 statues have been toppled. Hundred to one that Ukrainians fully appreciate the efforts made and investments in organizing such a large-scale and important from ideological point of view operation by the higher and local authorities.
According to “Le Figaro”, these destructions pretty fit into a general trend: for more than 30 years Ukraine has been trying to get rid of Soviet symbols and since 2014 the maximum emphasis has been placed on the discrepancies between Russians and Ukrainians. 2015 officials in Kiev established a Day of Rememberance and Reconciliation on May 8, unlike the Victory Day on May 9 in Russia, having replaced St. George ribbon with a red poppy. But now a new page has been added – the entire Russian culture falls under refusal and cancelling.
It is noted that not only monuments to the Russian military are being demolished, like the statue of Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov in Kharkiv or the Monument to the Military Glory of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (erected in Lviv), who died in the World War II. A new phenomenon of derussification in Ukraine began. Streets named after Russians are being renamed. Hostility is also established against Russian historical heritage of even such prominent figures like Pushkin and Tchaikovsky, who “symbolize their subordinate attitude to Russian culture”
Of all the variety of questions that arise, one is to be asked for sure. Why the Ukrainian authorities are those who are acting and the Spanish shame is being experienced by the rest of the cultural outlook
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Symboles soviétiques détruits en Ukraine : «Désormais le pays ne se décommunise plus, il se dérussifie»
ENTRETIEN - Les Ukrainiens déboulonnent statues et mémoriaux à la gloire de l'Union soviétique. Par cet acte, ils affermissent un peu plus leur sentiment national, analyse la chercheuse Alexandra Goujon.