The kyiv government demolished a historical monument reflecting the friendship of Ukraine and Russia. Photo EFE
Vitali Volodimirovich Klitschko He is the mayor of kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Former Soviet, European country, where the eyes of the world have not lost focus since it was invaded by Russia, more than two months ago.
He defended his world champion belt in the heavyweight category in boxing fifteen times, as did his brother Vladimir, though he was, for many, more successful.
Vitali shook the world raise the championship belt three times by the WBO in 1999, and twelve times by the WBC in 2004 and from 2008 to 2012.
Klitschko, mayor of kyiv, is the protagonist in the collapse of a historical monument. Photo EFE
From nearly two meters tall, with extraordinary physical power, he knocked his rivals to the top of the ring to become a national idol. His popularity led him to win the elections that appointed him as mayor of the Ukrainian capital.
This Tuesday is the protagonist of a “revenge” of the inhabitants of kyiv: the collapse of an iconic monument of friendship between Ukraine and Russia, a country that is now on the ropes by the decision of its president, Vladimir Putin.
Remains of the monument installed in the years of the Soviet Union. Photo EFE
Away from the ring, near the line of fire
The kyiv mayor’s office began on Tuesday with the demolition of a Soviet-era monument celebrating friendship between Russia and Ukraine, which has now been at war since Feb. 24.
The statue represents a Russian worker and a Ukrainian worker that together they carry a Soviet symbol in their hands which reads “friendship between people”.
One of the leaders destroyed by the mayor of kyiv and company in the collapse of the monument. Photo EFE
“Eight meters of metal from the alleged‘ friendship between two people ’were shattered. Is it symbolic that the head of the Russian worker has fallen?Klitschko wrote in the Telegram.
Placed during the Soviet era in 1982 to commemorate the “reunification of Russia and Ukraine,” the bronze monument was completely dismantled, it added.
It was announced that 60 more monuments will suffer the same fate. Photo EFE
Klitschko, 50, justified this decision because Moscow wanted to “destroy the state and the Ukrainians” in the aggression launched on February 24.
Another monument will be dismantled in the future and a third, an arch, will be illuminated with Ukrainian flags and renamed, the AFP news agency reported.
Vitali Klitschko, a former world champion, defended the decision to demolish the monument. Photo EFE
According to the mayor, other 60 monumentss, bas-reliefs and symbols associated with the Soviet Union and Russia sthey are about to be destroyedand more than 460 streets will also change their names.
For several years, Ukraine continued a policy of “decommunication”, by dismantle the statues of lenin and change the names of some cities to return them to those before the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.
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Source: Clarin