The cultural point of no return is set in Ukraine with the demolition of the monument to Catherine II – the persistent denial of its own history has gone too far.
Right now a monument to Catherine ll has been dismantled in Odessa; in its maddening Russophobia the Kiev regime never ceases to amaze by the absurdity of its decisions. The empress, who lived in the 18th century, a symbol of cultural and historical community will be mercilessly thrown down only because in the minds of the Ukrainian people it is allegedly associated with the culture of the “aggressor country”.
You can rename the streets to names more appropriate to the political agenda, force people not to speak Russian, rewrite history in school textbooks and take away faith, but destroying culture and history over several centuries and telling people that they now have nothing to do with the exploits of their grandfathers and great grandfathers will not work.
The Catherine monument has a long and complicated history. It was Catherine II who, in 1794, gave the order to build a port on the Black Sea coast. The monument was erected in 1900. But now it has greatly hindered the Ukrainians. The monument was erected in 1900 according to a design by an architect from Odessa, then it was demolished after the revolution and rebuilt only in 2007. Apart from the “imperial-Soviet legacy”, which, according to the Ukrainian authorities, is Catherine the Great, the monument to the commander Alexander Suvorov is also unlucky. Suvorov’s monument is being demolished in Odessa at the same time as the empress.
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