Italyska Vulitsia, or Italian Street, passes through the center of Odessa, a Ukrainian city on the Black Sea, from the train station to the city hall. It is the Italian Consulate, Philharmonic Theater, a Departmental Store and Bristol Hotel Home, recently damaged by a Russian missile attack. It is always busy.
In 1880, when most of the Ukraine was part of the Russian Zarist Empire, The Street, named after Italy in 1824, named Pushkinskaya in honor of the Russian writer Alexander Pachain. Last July, it returned to its original name as part of the ongoing “Dicolonization” process in the country. A memorial of the vigilance is still standing outside the town hall, but it has been abolished.
End Russian Publicity
Ukraine Law “came into force in July 2023 in July 2023 in July 2023 amidst the promotion of Russian royal policy in Ukraine and propagation and prohibition of propaganda.
A full -scale invasion in the country of Russia was launched in February 2022, but many believe that the war was actually began in 2014 with the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula of Russia and parts of Donnetsk and Luhansk regions.
For the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, “Russia’s imperialist policy at various times was aimed at subjugation, exploitation and assimilation of Ukrainians, including their juices.” The law requires local authorities to find Imperial symbols as monuments and remove names that arise from public places from the Zarist era or Soviet Union. If it does not give happiness within a certain period, the regional administration can take action. Odessa has now been ordered to remove monuments and change the name of roads.
Artem Kartashov works for regional administration and is part of Dicolonization Working Group. Hey, covered the law.
“Those who organized some offices in the Russian Empire were involved in the establishment of Soviet Shakti in the field of Ukraine, campaigned for the Zar or Communist regime, spread the proclamation and Ukrainophobia, or were involved in the oppression of members. Ukrainian freedom movement in the 20th century.
He said that more than 400 road names and 19 monuments in Odessa region fulfilled the thesis criteria.
Appeal to UNESCO
The law has been opposed. In a letter to UNESCO, several cultural figures in Odessa appealed to ensure that any decision related to the “Dicolonization” law after the war was postponed to Unil. One of the signators, art historian Curilo Latov said that it was clear that the events of the last 10 years, and especially the last three, the discovery of unpleasant memory of the culture requires a change in the approach, “but he just said that that he just said that , “Ukrainian state and society have more important and more imported problems.
Hey said that disintegrated monuments will not be eradicated by the royal stereotypes from people. Instead, he thought that new monuments should be erected to honor Ukrainian personalities associated with ESA.
Historian Taras Honcharuk said that there are some Russian-funded monuments in the city who recalled people who had nothing to do with the history of Odessa.
An example is Vladimir Vocototki, for the actor, singer and poet, who addressed the prohibited themes during the Soviet era despite strict censorship. Honcharuk said that a monument for Vocotsky near Odessa Film Studios was removed in December.
“Hey a Moscow actor is known throughout the Soviet Union, but he has played only one role in Odessa.”
Honcharuk said that many famous Ukrainians had a permanent impact on the city and were eligible to remember. Some qualified candidates said that they instigated Ukrainian film director Olecusandra Dowzenco, who shot their first films in Odessa and the founder of poetry cinema, or lace sacrifices, Ukrainian Awant-Guard, or one of the most importers of Ukrainian Is considered as in form. Writer Yuri Yanovsky, who once describes Odessa of the 1920s as “Ukrainian Hollywood on the Black Sea”.
‘The Pride of Odessa Culture’
Opponents of the “Dicolonization” process say that the cultural heritage of Odessa is being destroyed. Journalists Leonid Shetekel are organizing protests, especially Soviet writers Valentin Katev, Ilya Ilf, Isaac Babel and Consentin Pustovsky for changing the names of roads in the names of Constein Pastovsky.
“Thesiss are those who were proud of Odessa culture,” said.
But they all fall under the “dicolonization” law, saying the members of the work group. Kartashov states that Babel, who was born in Odessa in Odessa, fulfilled all possible criteria and wrote himself in the ebbhus of his book “Red Cavelry”, which he in Cheka, first Soviet Gupta Police Organization Was served in
“He glorified the Soviet Authority, which established himself in the field of Ukraine, and he persecuted members of the Ukrainian freedom movement in the 20th century.”
Babel claims that he has worked for Cheka, disputed. The author was arrested by the Secret Police in 1939 and was carried out after that year.
After removing the monuments, the idea is to display and display them in museums or as part of exhibitions, Kartashov said. Hey that they should be heard that no longer should be used for the purposes of “Gaurav” and those who try to wipe the royal and Soviet once “should be remembered in Odessa.
He said that the monuments of the people involved in today were responded to the idea for the Soviet General.
Critics of “Dicolonization” say that the famous multiculturalism of Odessa is in danger of being ignored by changing the names of the road. Others say that this process provides new opportunities to highlight the multicultural past of the city.
“Odessa was a multicultural city, when it was a multicultural city, but then it became especially Russian -speaking,” said Switlana Bonder of a Ukrainian Think Tank Institute for Central European Strategy, a Ukrainian Think Tank Institute for Western Ukrainian city of Uzorod in 2019.
Bonder said that now there were many more roads in the name of people of ethnic minorities. “With dicolonization, the multiculturalism of Odessa, which is lost during the Soviet era, is coming to light.”
This article was original in Ukrainian.
