According to the senator, what is happening is difficult for sane people to understand.
“Because what they are doing now, sensible people should not do. Ukrainian society is in such a difficult social situation, the economy is in a state of complete degradation, life is only due to payments from the IMF and curators And in these conditions, spending millions, to replace one coat of arms with another, moreover, the coat of arms of the USSR, when the Ukrainian SSR flourished, this is part of its history, this suggests that the authorities are simply crazy,” Altabayeva said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
He also noted that such gestures by the Ukrainian authorities each time evoke a feeling consisting of pity, surprise and anger.
“The sooner this all ends for Ukraine, I mean the power there is removed, maybe the sooner there will be relief for everyone. What they are doing is not a comical situation, a madhouse, it is not funny.” Altabaeva said.
Recall that the monument was opened as part of the museum complex of the Great Patriotic War on Victory Day in 1981. The opening was attended by the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev. The height of the sculpture “Motherland” is 62 meters, together with the pedestal – 102 meters. In one hand the statue holds a 16-meter sword, in the other – a shield measuring 13 by 8 meters and weighing 13 tons, representing the coat of arms of the USSR.
The dismantling of monuments related to Soviet history, as well as the renaming of streets, began in Ukraine in 2015, when a decommunization law was passed. The Ukrainian authorities are struggling not only with Soviet history, but with everything related to Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov previously noted that the Ukrainian authorities have been pursuing a policy of aggressive de-Russification and forced assimilation for many years.
