Since the day of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, on February 24, seven monuments relating to Russia or the USSR have been dismantled in the Poltava region, Oleg Pustovgar, a representative of the Institute of National Memory in the region, told Suspіlny.

In general, it was dismantled:.

a bust of the Soviet politician and leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party Vladimir Lenin on the territory of the sanatorium \;

monument to communist leader Nikolai Podgorny in Karlovka;

two busts of the Bulgarian communists Tsvyatka Radoinov and Dmitry Blagoev in the village of Kolomakskoe, Poltava region;

bust of Soviet commander Nikolai Vatutin in the village of Pososhkov, Krasnoluksky community;

bust of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky in the village of Leventsovka, Chutovskaya community;

bust of the military figure of the Russian Empire Vasily Chapaev in the village of Kharkovka, Gadyach community.

According to Pustovgar, the busts of Gorky and Vatutin were removed as part of de-Russification. The remaining five were dismantled as part of decommunization.

At the same time, the bust of Lenin remains on the territory of the sanatorium. The bust of Gorky was transferred to the historical and cultural reserve " As for the other five monuments, negotiations are underway to transfer them to the "

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