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| Lugansk People’s Republic, April 22, 2015. Photo: Lugansk City Communist Party |
April 22: The communists are not going to give up their ideas and symbols, said Maksym Chalenko, First Secretary of the Lugansk City Communist Party, at a rally commemorating the 145th anniversary of Lenin’s birth.
According to him, the political decisions taken in Kiev, including the law on “decommunization,” amount to suicide for the whole country.
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| Photo: Ekaterina Popova |
“Today, any sensible person understands that the legacy of communism is not monuments and city names. It is the great industrial potential, all the achievements in the social sphere, the best education and health care, the possibility of a decent life for every citizen across the country — that’s what Ukraine inherited from the Soviet Union. And it is these achievements which the monuments to Lenin which stood throughout Ukraine represented.”
He added that the attempt to abandon the communist past threatens the statehood of Ukraine: the decision excludes all international legal acts to which the USSR was a party. As a result Ukraine already has received a number of territorial and property claims on the part of European States. And Ukrainian authorities brought this on themselves by by adopting the law on “decommunization.”
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| Photo: Ekaterina Popova |
Translated by Greg Butterfield
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