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Ukraine moves to purge its Soviet symbols


KIEV, Ukraine — When Ukraine broke from the Soviet Union in 1991, it never bothered to clear away the hammers and sickles that marked it as a workers’ paradise.

[…] it is making a belated effort to declare independence from the communist past — and workers are racing through the country to take down old Soviet symbols.

The latest vestige to disappear from Ukraine’s capital of Kiev was a black granite plaque dedicated to Oleksandr Anishenko, a Soviet World War II fighter whose exploits were so daring that a small street in central Kiev was renamed after him, until last week.

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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