“For Lenin, for Stalin”: as in Chernihiv region keep the portraits of leaders
“For Lenin, for Stalin”: as in Chernihiv region keep the portraits of leaders In the center of the city of Novgorod-Seversky of Chernihiv region of Ukraine near the Russian border on the water tower is still preserved mosaic portraits of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Local authorities are saving mosaic, established in 1943, and do not respond to the requirements of the Institute of national remembrance to dismantle the portraits. The mayor even says that they attract tourists that want to see a kind of “tower of tyranny”. At the Institute of naramata insist that the possession of portraits in a public place is a violation of the law “About the condemnation of the Communist and national socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of propaganda of their symbols”. According to this law, adopted in 2015, the streets of all Ukrainian cities and villages had a