Monument to Suvorov removed from Kiev in Poltava

In Poltava, a monument to the Russian commander Alexander Suvorov was removed from the pedestal, writes local publication “Poltavashchyna” with reference to the regional representative of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINP) in the Poltava region Oleg Pustovgar.

“For us, as a country that opposes Russian aggression, this is not just a matter of symbols, but a fundamentally important historical issue. Suvorov is included in the pantheon of heroes of the USSR, now Putin’s Russia, formerly the Russian Empire. Ukraine has its historical heroes. Suvorov has a clear negative reputation in the history of Ukraine,” Pustovgar said.

He also called for the renaming of toponymic objects that bear the name of Suvorov, whom he called “the executioner of the Ukrainian and Polish peoples.”

Head of the Department of History of Ukraine at the Poltava Pedagogical University, Lyudmila Babenko, said that the commander was involved in the “forced deportation from Crimea” of Greeks and Armenians in 1778, “the extermination of part of the Nogais” – the people who lived in the Northern Black Sea region, and the suppression of the uprising in Poland under the leadership of Tadeusz Kosciuszko .