In the context of decommunization, it is not necessary to demolish monuments, it is enough just to correctly explain their symbolism by additional plates.

This was stated by the artist Alexander Roitburd in his interview to the "Observer".

"Criterion one: artistic value. Grandfather Lenin, by the way, signed a decree according to which monuments of kings, their servants and other exploiters of the people were supposed to be demolished, except for those that are of artistic value. And a number of monuments have survived since the tsarist times, although the people who dedicated these monuments were ideologically debunked. The perception of monuments largely depends on the context. Take for example the monument to Vorontsov in Odessa, which after the revolution of 1917 was not demolished. First, a sign with Pushkin's epigram was hung on him: "Half a half-lord, half-pood, half-poodle, half-naked, half-armed ...". Thus, the monument was desacralized, turned from an object of worship into a historical artifact, and with a critical attitude towards it. In the postwar period, this tablet was replaced by a neutral one, since Vorontsov no longer aroused any strong feelings, except for purely historical interest. Ordinary people are interested in the question of whether Vorontsov's wife slept with Pushkin, only everything, "he said..

The artist also recalled the "struggle" with the monument to Shchors.

"And now we'll think about the political burden of the monument to Shchors before he was" wrestled "with him Who remembered him, whom he was interested in, for whom he was a political landmark? He called associations only with the song" The head is tied, the blood on the sleeve , The trail of bloody creeps along the damp grass, "which was sung mostly in a state of intoxication, putting into execution a significant portion of irony. This song is already a social art, an example of Soviet naive art, which evoked only a smile, like a portrait of Shevchenko depicted by a rural artist. That's all that Shchors was associated with most people, "continued Roitburd.

He noted that it was possible to give explanatory inscriptions near the monument and to rectify the situation.

"At me this monument associates with a high sample of equestrian sculpture. In Ukraine, no one is ever more blind, the school has degraded. And this is so mythologized character that it was enough to write a tablet: "Monument to the myth created by Alexander Dovzhenko," plus some explanatory inscriptions. And this statue would have evolved from a monument to Shchors in evidence of a certain era of Soviet mythology, "- summed up the artist.

As reported by the "Observer", earlier Roitburd explained how everything is ambiguous with the war.

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