The medallion “Reunification of Ukrainian lands, 1939” is being dismantled in the Kiev metro

The Kyiv City Council Commission on Culture and Tourism approved a draft decision on the dismantling of communist symbols at Kyiv metro stations.

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This was reported by the press service of the Kyiv City Council.

According to the project, the communist symbols that remain at nine metro stations in the capital will be dismantled:

At the “Heroes of Dnepra” metro station, they intend to remove the emblems of the USSR Ground Forces, Air Force and Navy on the door of the track wall;

At the Vokzalna metro station there are medallions “The Great Patriotic War”, “Reunification of Ukrainian Lands, 1939”, “In a Free, New Family”, “For the Power of the Soviets”;

At the Arsenalnaya metro station there are Soviet stars on decorative grilles;

At the Universitet metro station there are Soviet stars on the lighting lamps;

At the metro station "Palace of Ukraine" - a mosaic of soldiers of the workers' and peasants' red army, and stars of the Red Army and the Soviet army on the rut wall are subject to dismantling;

At the Shulyavskaya metro station, the inscriptions of communist slogans on the cornice are being dismantled;

At the Beresteyskaya metro station there is a hammer and sickle on the door of the rut wall;

At the Lybidskaya metro station - at the end of the central hall there is a composition of Soviet stars and an image of a Soviet star on the door of the track wall;

At the Polytechnic Institute metro station, a bas-relief is being dismantled at the end of the central hall.

Please note that the commission will bring this decision up for discussion at the next meeting of the City Council.