The Dnipro city council received an official letter from the administration of the Russian city of Kremenki, Kaluga region, with a request to transfer the dismantled Soviet monuments to them in exchange for firewood. This was announced by a freelance adviser to the mayor of the Dnieper Evgeny Gendin.

" Then Boris Filatov received an official letter from a country that reforged balalaikas into sledgehammers (which is strange - the letter was not written on birch bark). Well, to an official letter - an official response from the Dnipro City Council. The author is the secretary of the city council Alexander Sanzhara,"

The Russians received the following answer:.

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From the letter it is seen that the administration in your person is a little stuck in the past, since the city of Dnepropetrovsk, which you often mention, has not existed for eight years. But, to make it more comfortable for us to communicate, we can address you as the headman of the owner's village or the head of the working village, which Kremenki was quite recently. I am almost sure that the news about the abolition of serfdom also reached your outskirts.

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The letter came to us by e-mail, so please accept our sincere congratulations on the fact that the Internet reached your working village. I hope you even managed to catch such social networks as Facebook and Instagram before they were banned by Roskomnadzor. And normal roads, judging by the photo of your village, have not yet reached you. But, as you say there, Moscow was not built right away, and, by the way, it didn’t drown right away either.

Information about the demolition of monuments is not entirely correct. In fact, they have been deposited until the issue of their status as cultural heritage is resolved.. Nevertheless, we are ready to discuss the issue of exchanging the monument to the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky for, as you put it, “firewood for the civilian population of Ukraine”,"

Earlier, Boris Filatov noted that the city authorities have repeatedly asked representatives of the top leadership of Ukraine to exclude monuments associated with the USSR or the aggressor state from the list of cultural heritage.. However, without waiting for an answer, the executive committee independently decided to remove objects from the streets of the Dnieper.

" 'Cause they're only bold in words. Well, or in the fight against the Dovzhenko Center,"

In early December 2022, the executive committee of the Dnipro City Council decided to transfer the monuments to Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lomonosov, Maxim Gorky and other figures associated with the Russian Federation or the Soviet past from public space to the territory of the Zoocontrol utility company for temporary storage.

" They will be more wholesome,"