It should be noted that the basis for deprivation of such a title is a personal appeal of the most honorable citizen or a conviction against him.
The document signed by the city’s mayor, Boris Filatov, states that Brezhnev died in 1982, long before the Ukrainian law on “decommunization” was enacted in 2015, so there is no reason to deprive him of his title.
In May, kyiv council deputies voted to strip Brezhnev of the title of honorary citizen of kyiv. There was a time when the Secretary General was the first to receive this title.
In August, the Ukrainian capital completed the installation of the Ukrainian trident coat of arms on the shield of the Fatherland monument in place of the dismantled coat of arms of the USSR.
The demolition of Soviet monuments and the renaming of streets in Ukraine became possible after the adoption of the decommunization law in 2015. According to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, over the past year the authorities changed the name of almost 10,000 geographical names and dismantled 145 monuments associated with Russia and the USSR.
Leonid Brezhnev was born in 1906 in Kamensky, Yekaterinoslav province (now Dnepropetrovsk region in Ukraine). At different times he was the first secretary of the regional committees of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolsheviks) in Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye. From 1964 to 1982 he was General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
