• ‘Casual decommunisation’: seeking to save Ukraine’s Soviet-era modernist masterpieces

    ‘Casual decommunisation’: seeking to save Ukraine’s Soviet-era modernist masterpieces
    Dmytro Soloviov is campaigning to protect Ukraine’s USSR architectural past from the double threat of Russian bombs and ‘blind fury’ at MoscowAs Russian bombs rain down on Ukraine, one young Ukrainian activist is trying to halt destruction of a different kind: the neglect of, and damage to, modernist buildings and public art.Nearly a decade ago, in 2015, Ukraine instituted laws demanding the removal of monuments and street names glorifying the country’s communist past, wi

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