Decommunization in Ukraine started during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and expanded afterwards. Following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity and beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Uk
Destruction of the statue of Lenin in Kyiv during the 1 December 2013 Euromaidan protests
The Ukrainian SSR emblem seen in top of the city hall in Kharkiv.
Former Soviet-era bas-reliefs at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv; removed in August 2016 (to comply with decommunization laws) and transferred to the Museum of Totalitarianism
Memorial to the Cheka in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, 2023
The Revolution of Dignity, also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests. Scores of protesters were kill
Decommunization in Ukraine
…Decommunization in Ukraine started during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and expanded afterwards. Following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity and beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Ukrainian government approved laws that banned communist symbols, as well as symbols of Nazism as both…
Top: Protesters fighting government forces on Independence Square on 18 February 2014. Bottom: Independence Square on 23 February.
S State flag of Ukraine carried by a protester to the heart of developing clashes in Kyiv, Ukraine. Events of February 18, 2014
Euromaidan protesters in Kyiv, December 2013
The protest camp on Independence Square in February 2014