Kernes said he would demolish all Soviet monuments in Kharkov and rename 200 streets
The mayor of Kharkov, Gennady Kernes, says that he is not going to resist the process of de-Sovietization in Kharkov.
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Kernes himself stated this in his interview with Radio Liberty.
“If the law is signed and comes into force, we will create a working group that will work to implement the law. This will be done in a civilized manner: Soviet monuments will be dismantled, dismantled, and disposed of. But in such a way as tying cables to cars at night and pulling, throwing it all down is not correct. I am not going to interfere with decommunization,” Kernes said.
According to the head of Kharkov, he does not understand the statements of lawyers involved in writing the law on decommunization that almost no additional funds from city budgets will be needed to rename squares, streets, parks and public gardens with the names of Soviet figures. According to Kernes, when the mayor’s office, at the request of Kharkov residents, wanted to rename Kosiora Avenue, it was forced to abandon this idea due to millions of expenses on legal processes associated with the re-registration of documents of legal entities and registration documents of residents.
“We need to calculate everything, organize it for people, help to help, so that there is no additional corruption,” said Gennady Kernes.
More than two hundred streets with Soviet names in Kharkiv will have to be renamed, according to the city council's toponymic commission.
The law condemning communism was submitted to the president for signature on April 30.
Kernes announced that he would demolish all Soviet monuments in Kharkiv and rename 200 streets.