In the list of monuments that are planned to be demolished in Kyiv as a reminder of the times of the USSR and communist ideals, there is no monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Local residents decided to fix this and created a petition regarding the dismantling of the monument located on O. Gonchar Street 74a.
“A monument to a person who was not involved in the development or development of the city of Kyiv, who is not an outstanding person, but is just another Soviet propaganda tool,” writes the author of the petition Daniil Akulenko.
Currently, the petition has collected 69 signatures out of 6,000 required. But the people of Kiev still have a month and a half to vote for this initiative.
Recall that at the beginning of the war with the German fascists, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, along with other Komsomol members as part of special squads, was trained for sabotage in the occupied territories by the invaders to implement the Stalinist scorched earth tactics. During the battle for Moscow, the detachments were given the task of burning all the buildings within a radius of 200 km from Moscow, so that the German troops had nowhere to warm up and spend the night. Including civilian housing. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya managed to organize the arson of three houses. During the second arson attempt, a villager raised the alarm and she was arrested. She was tortured and executed on November 29, 1941.
Earlier, a monument in honor of the friendship between Kyiv and Moscow was dismantled in the capital of Ukraine. In addition, the people of Kiev have chosen new names for five metro stations in the capital.
Source: Fakty
