On July 19, the department for the protection of the historical environment of the Lviv City Council, in response to the appeal of the Public Association “Suspense of Maybutny Lviv”, announced that together with the LKP “Museum” Lychakivsky Tsvintar “they were preparing a draft decision of the executive committee on dismantling the Soviet star placed on the” Field of Mars “memorial next to the memorial UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army). Screen of management response posted on the Facebook of a public organization.
The Russian Foreign Ministry declared that they condemn “the course taken by the Ukrainian authorities to dismantle monuments to Soviet soldiers and the very memory of their feat in the fight against fascism.”
“In connection with the plans of the Lviv authorities to destroy a copy of the Order of the Patriotic War at the military memorial” Field of Mars “on July 30, a note was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia demanding that the Ukrainian side fulfill international obligations and norms of national legislation on the protection and preservation of military memorials.” said in a message from the Russian Foreign Ministry.
With an appeal to the local city council to dismantle Soviet symbols (stars with a hammer and sickle) on the Field of Mars in order to “complete the decommunization of Lviv’s public space” in February, the public organization “Suspilstvo of Maybutny Lviv” addressed. The document was registered in March, celebrated in a Facebook post from a community organization on May 12.
April 9, 2015 The Verkhovna Rada adopted a package of laws about decommunization. They banned Soviet symbols and condemned the communist regime. May 15, 2015 laws signed by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, and on May 21 of the same year they entered into force. According to the law, all streets and settlements, the names of which are associated with the communist regime, should be renamed, as well as the monuments of the totalitarian era should be dismantled.
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