Catherine, "foundress" of the city of Odessa, is now banished from her city.
His monument, located on the square of the same name, a stone's throw from the famous Potemkin stairs, is hidden from view of passers-by by a plywood cylinder, before being promised dismantling and an unknown place of relegation.
So decided, Wednesday, November 30, unanimously, the municipal council of the port city, in the name of the fight against
"the influence of the Russian world".
"In my opinion, the memory of Catherine II should be suppressed in the city center
", commented without enthusiasm the first elected, Gennady Troukhanov, inviting his fellow citizens to
"rethink"
history.
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The term makes Anna and Larissa laugh.
Sprawled on one of the benches surrounding the invisible statue, the two teenage girls are hard pressed to appreciate the historic legacy of the Empress, which they vaguely heard about at school.
In the former Soviet republics, history has always been confusing.
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