Until now, Ukraine has lived by the laws of the Soviet Union.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law” On de-Sovietization of Ukrainian legislation “, announced Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk.
De-Sovietization removes from modern legislation:
- mention of the “victories of the Great October Socialist Revolution”;
- desire to implement “Leninist ideas of building a communist society”;
- links to programs developed by the Communist Party;
- priorities in the rights of Komsomol members, communists and other “comrades”;
- almost 1,200 acts of state authorities and administration of the USSR, the Ukrainian SSR.
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< span style = "font-weight: 400;"> The law also instructs the Cabinet of Ministers to conduct the same at its level in the near future, to update the Labor Code, the Housing Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses.
In recent years, decommunization has been active in Ukraine. It is manifested, in particular, in the renaming of streets and other place names. Currently Kyiv plans to rename several metro stations: “Leo Tolstoy Square”, “Brest”, “Minsk”, “Heroes of the Dnieper” and “Friendship of Peoples”.
