Decommunization in Ukraine

The de-communization in Ukraine ( Ukrainian Декомунізація в Україні , with decommunisation translated) officially began in April 2015 with the adoption of several laws prohibiting the use of communist symbols.

These laws were then signed and enacted by the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on May 15, 2015.

The individual laws are:

• Law on the Condemnation of the Communist and National Socialist Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine and the Prohibition of Propaganda Using Their Symbols
• Law on access to the archives of the repressive organs of the communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991
• Law on Perpetuating Victory over Nazism in World War II 1939-1945
• Law on the Legal Status and Memory of the Fighters for the Independence of Ukraine in the 20th Century

This marked the beginning of a six-month phase in which all communist monuments (except those with reference to World War II ) had to be removed and squares and streets were renamed with communist names. As a result of these efforts, the Ukrainian Institute for National Remembrance issued a list of places to be renamed Commissioned with the implementation in May 2016, after which the decisions to be made for the renaming would have been carried out by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine .

As a result of the law, the Communist Party of Ukraine was banned on July 24, 2015. Lenin , Dzerzhinsky , Kirov and Komsomol monuments have now been dismantled by the state ( angry citizens had demolished some monuments since Euromaidan 2013). At the end of 2016 it was announced that 1,320 Lenin monuments were demolished and 51,500 streets were renamed this year.

Overall, around 3% of all inhabited places in Ukraine were renamed, the following resolutions were passed in 2016:

• Resolution 984-VIII of the Verkhovna Rada of February 4, 2016 , entered into force on February 18, 2016
• Resolution 1037-VIII of the Verkhovna Rada of March 17, 2016 , entered into force on April 2, 2016
• Resolution 1351-VIII of the Verkhovna Rada of May 12, 2016 , entered into force on May 22, 2016
• Resolution 1352-VIII of the Verkhovna Rada of May 12, 2016 , not yet come into force
• Resolution 1353-VIII of the Verkhovna Rada of May 12, 2016 , entered into force on May 22, 2016
• Resolution 1374-VIII of the Verkhovna Rada of May 19, 2016 , entered into force on June 3, 2016
• Resolution 1377-VIII of the Verkhovna Rada of May 19, 2016 , entered into force on June 3, 2016

See also

• Lenin monuments in Ukraine
• Decommunization
• Portal: Ukraine / Renaming

Web links

Commons : Decommunization in Ukraine  - collection of images

• The end for hammer and sickle , Deutschlandfunk , June 22, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/259775.html
2. ↑ http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/05/15/7068057/
3. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Закон від 04.09.2015 № 317 VIII-Про засудження комуністичного та націонал-соціалістичного (нацистського) тоталітарних режимів в Україні та заборону пропаганди їхньої символіки
4. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Закон від April 9th, 2015 № 316-VIII Про доступ до архівів репресивних органів комуністичного тоталлітарного режимітарного режим урків1
5. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Закон від 09.04.2015 № 315-VIII Про увічнення перемоги над нацизмом у Другій світовій війні 1939-1945 років
6. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Закон від 09.04.2015 № 314-VIII Про правовий статус та вшанування пам'яті борців за незалежність Укілаїни у XX сті
7. ↑ http://www.memory.gov.ua/news/v-ukraini-za-pivroku-zminyat-nazvi-3-mist-i-sil
8. ↑ Good bye, Lenin! , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung on December 27, 2016.