Photo: Twice USSR Hero Stepan Artemenko/ntn.ua
Ukrainian Inter TV channel is conducting the All-Ukrainian Nobody Is Forgotten campaign for the 5th time. While the official authorities delete the names relating to common history of Russia and Ukraine from textbooks, enthusiasts are engaged in the reconstruction of monuments to the heroes of World War II, NTN channel reports.
The bust of twice the Hero of the USSR Stepan Artyomenko was restored in the Odessa region by the Victory Day this year. He was born, lived and studied here, in the village of Malinovka. He fought since 1941, survived the Battle of Stalingrad and the Kursk Arc, reached Berlin, and returned to his native village. In 1953, while Stepan Elizarovich was still alive, fellow villagers erected a monument to him and laid a park in front of the house where his family lived. Over time, this corner of memory began to resemble a wasteland. The residents of the village did not have enough money for a complete repair. They decided to seek help from Nobody is Forgotten project. A team of builders restored the monument and cleaned the surrounding territory. Veterans will gather here again on May 9.
Germans shot the locals in the village of Klevan, Rivne region in 1943. The memorial, erected in memory of the dead, was also reconstructed as part of the project.
Local residents are convinced that the memory of the War and feat, which our ancestors committed, must be preserved. According to them, a lot of people come to memorable places, where they remember their relatives who went through the war.
Note, more than 2000 monuments and memorial signs were dismantled, about a thousand settlements and more than 50 thousand streets, avenues and squares were renamed as part of the decommunization carried out by the authorities in Ukraine. With the support of the Russkiy Mir Foundation, a group of Ukrainian researchers created the Monuments of
Russian History and Culture in Ukraine Internet portal. The resource contains information about 480 different objects of Russian historical and cultural heritage in Ukraine and is constantly updated.
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