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Ukraine: Soviet Monuments to Chernobyl?

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Ukraine, Disaster, Environment, Governance, History, Travel

Chernobyl and Eastern Europe writes about president Yushchenko's order to demolish some 20,000 Soviet-era monuments [1] in Ukraine, as part of the commemoration of Holodomor, the great famine of 1932-33, and about the culture and tourism minister's suggestions to move these monuments to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.