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Dr. Evgenii Matveev (Dresden)
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Regie: Andrzej Wajda, Polen 2017, 98 Min. Drama, OmeU
Władysław Strzemiński ist ein gefeierter Künstler und beliebter Professor an der Kunsthochschule in Łódź. Als das kommunistische Regime jedoch den…
by Viktoriia Nechyporuk
While there have been recurring debates about how to deal with the Soviet legacy since the country's independence, in 2015 decommunisation became a systemic imperative of Ukrainian state policy. Particularly in the case of monuments that are an essential part of the public space, redefinition became a strategy of decommunisation. The article examines the debates surrounding and the alteration of such a monument, the Motherland statue in Kiyv.