RT-Engels: 28-12-2024,
Officials claim to have deconstructed a “myth” by scrapping the names of ‘hero cities’ honored for their fight against Nazis
A Ukrainian World War II museum has defaced memorials to Soviet cities which demonstrated resolve in fighting off Nazi invaders. The move was touted as helping to deconstruct “Communist myths”.
The USSR declared a number of cities heroic for the role that their residents played in the fight against the Axis powers. Kiev was one of the recipients of this honor and has a memorial alley in which each city was given a granite stone marked with its name and a bas-relief of the gold star of the hero of the Soviet Union award – the highest state decoration at the time.
On Friday, the national War Museum in Kiev, which has custody of the alley, reported taking “a very important symbolic step” in removing all letters and images from the stones. The names of all of these locations, including Kiev and others located in modern Ukraine, were scrapped, judging by a video from the scene.
Термін «Місто-Герой» утвердився Указом Президії Верховної Ради СРСР від 8.05.1965 р. Першими містами, які отримали звання у 1965 р., стали м. Ленінград, Одеса, Севастополь, Волгоград, Київ, Москва, та Брест. 3/4 pic.twitter.com/DEMJLI3S5O
— Музей історії України у Другій світовій війні (@warmuseum_ua) December 27, 2024
Calling cities heroic was “one of the foundational myths of the totalitarian Soviet regime” it claimed,