All monuments, memorials and commemorative signs to Soviet soldiers in the Lviv region intend to be transferred to a special open-air museum of occupation (skansen).

Currently, the search for a suitable site for this is underway.

Oleg Radyk, adviser to the head of the regional military administration, told about the realization of this idea on the air of the Lviv Wave radio.

According to the data of the Lviv OVA, there are still 170 monuments to the so-called "liberators" on the territory of the region.

They are mostly located in villages or small towns and are in a neglected state.

Calls for the demolition of these objects of the totalitarian regime are increasingly heard in the communities of Lviv Oblast.  

According to Oleg Radyk, the head of the Lviv OVA, Maksym Kozytskyi, fully supports the idea of ​​creating an "occupation period park". 

"But you don't have to wait for its creation.

"Representatives of local communities should remove these "sacred" Soviet stelae and memorial signs, and then transfer them to the museum, as a reminder that this will never happen again," he noted.

It will be recalled that Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov proposes to create a park complex "Imperial and Soviet Past", where part of the architectural monuments of Odessa should be moved.

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