In Putyvl of Sumy region writers and poets who died long before the events of 1917 were got under the law on decommunization.
This is stated in the article the local media. De-communization passed to the degree of neglect when even in Pro-Ukrainian publications puzzled see the consequences of proliferating tumor svidomye of insanity. So in Putivl they are preparing for the renaming of streets which were named in honor of Pushkin, Lermontov and Chekhov. The author is surprised that out of all the deputies didn’t find a single person who would be against renaming.
“Why is it needed to rename the Lermontov street to the Lesya Ukrainka street? If there was an urgent need to perpetuate, finally, an outstanding Ukrainian poet that in Putivl there are missing streets which are really named after the representatives of the totalitarian regime: Sverdlov, Kuibyshev and their ilk,” the author ponders.
In his view the Lunacharsky street will be perfect name in honor of Lesya Ukrainian and philanthropist Maklakov will better be perpetuated by the fact that repaired the College which he had built and set a plaque on it. After all he didn’t build the whole street!
Also the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, a distinguished test pilot Valery Chkalov, the world famous navigator and explorer Semyon Chelyuskin (1700 year of birth!), civil war hero Nikolai Shchors were “under the hand”: well, of course, as symbols of the Soviet era! Emelyan Pugachev joined them who came from a “Little Russia village” and spoke Ukrainian language.
“What is our Bolotnikov “better” than Emelka? The fact is that he revolted in Putivl? And Putivl was then Russian city so maybe then the Putivl need to rename? And Chelyuskin did not deserve that a street which was named in his honor now called “Saltpeternay (!)”,” the author notes.
Representatives of the historical-cultural reserve were proposed to rename the street back to their old names, or name them in honor of the Holy places: churches which are on them. Some believe that the streets prefer to be called in honor of outstanding priests. Radical pro-Ukrainian citizens propose to name the streets after pro-Ukrainian. However in the Russian-speaking Putivl this can excite internal resistance and discredits the idea of decommunization.
