Minsk Avenue in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been renamed Lithuania Avenue, the Kyiv City Council announced last week.
In total, more than 40 streets, squares, boulevards, and avenues with names related to Russia and Belarus have been renamed, according to the council’s website.
Deputy Kyiv Mayor Volodymyr Bondarenko said it was necessary to remove hostile names from the city map.
A total of 279 objects with names related to Russia and Belarus have been identified in Kyiv, according to Bondarenko. A decision on renaming the remaining sites would be taken by the end of September, he added.
Hmmm ... I get it, but I can't help but think about the white-washing of history that is happening in my own country.
I know that the victor writes the history, but at some level there are just the facts. We have some dark times in our history here and we have many monuments to people who were deeply flawed and who would never be celebrated today. Do we tear down those monuments? Or perhaps just update the signage to tell the whole story? Idk. I haven't made up my own mind here; just throwing it out for consideration.
As for Ukraine, it is ultimately up to them to make these decisions not me.
