All streets in Ukraine named after Lenin, Marx, and 518 others must be renamed by November 21

Source: Kommersant

The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory has published a list of 520 historical figures who fall under the government's new decommunization initiative. Their names must be erased from geographical names across Ukraine before November 21.

The list of decommunized landmarks includes anything named after individuals who "occupied senior positions in the Communist Part of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian SSR, and other Soviet republics, members of the Cheka-GPU-NKVD-KGB, and the leaders of the Communist Party and 1917 October Revolution."

The list of historical figures includes the authors of the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the USSR's wartime foreign secretary, Vyacheslav Molotov, Leonid Brezhnev, Vladimir Lenin, and others.

All streets and other geographic places must be renamed before November 21, 2015.

On May 15, 2015, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed four laws condemning "the Communist and Nazi regimes" that occupied Ukraine in the 20th century. The laws ban the use of Soviet symbols and opened the country's KGB archives to the public.

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All streets in Ukraine named after Lenin, Marx, and 518 others must be renamed by November 21

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