President set to sign measures that ban Communist symbols and offer public recognition and payouts for fighters in militias implicated in atrocities In Kiev, a Soviet memorial to the second world war stands at one end of Shevchenko boulevard, which is named after the poet who formulated Ukrainian language and literature as distinct from Russia’s. The boulevard passes monuments to Mykhailo Hrushevsky, a founder of the short-lived Ukrainian People’s Republic in 1917, and Mykola Shchors, who fought for the Bolsheviks against that republic. It ends with an empty plinth where a statue of Lenin stood until toppled by protesters in …read more
Source: The Guardian
