On May 3, a monument to “Ukrainian grandmother with a Soviet flag” was erected in Belgorod, Russia, but the sculpture was removed the next day. The mayor’s office said they were looking for a new place for the sculpture.
The monument appeared at the cinema “Victory”. According to local authorities, immediately after the installation of the sculpture, residents began to climb on it. That is why the authorities have removed the “grandmother” and will look for a new place where people “will not be able to contact” with this “symbol”.
This is reported by Meduza with reference to the mayor of Belgorod Anton Ivanov.
We add that in Russian Obninsk they created graffiti with the same grandmother, but it was painted over the next day after the appearance, Russian media reported on the Web.
The patriotic symbol of a Ukrainian grandmother with a flag did not take root in two Russian vegetable gardens. In Belgorod, a statue was erected in honor of her, but was soon removed because they tried to climb on it. And in Obninsk , graffiti with the same grandmother was painted over the next day after his appearance.
— Lenta.ru (@lentaruofficial) May 4, 2022
An old woman living in the past is ideal for the role of a symbol of modern Russia. New Image
— Romych (@trmbdt) May 4, 2022
Grandmother with the Banner of Victory reached Siberia.
A poster of my grandmother with the Soviet flag was hung on the building of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs in Krasnoyarsk. pic.twitter.com/XYW4xbfMUK— TTTaymuraz (@taymuraz62) May 3, 2022
What is this grandmother with the Soviet flag?
A video from the Ukrainian military was published on the Web, where they are met by a grandmother with a Soviet flag. She said that she was looking forward to them and “prayed for Putin and all the people.” From the footage, it becomes clear that the grandmother confused the Ukrainian military with the Russian ones. The Ukrainian defender gave granny groceries, and threw the red flag on the ground and stepped on it. Then the grandmother said that she did not want food, because the military man stood on “the flag for which her parents died,” but he explained that he did so “because they (the Russian occupiers – ed.) came to my house.”
This video was quickly picked up by Russian propagandists and showed stories about the “Ukrainian grandmother” on many TV channels. She was called “a brave woman who was not afraid to go out to the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the Soviet flag.”
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Recall that according to the latest results of a poll by the Rating group, more than 65% of Ukrainians support the renaming of streets containing Russian or Soviet names. Another 71% of Ukrainians are for the dismantling of monuments associated with Russia, and 62% are for a ban on radio and television of musical products from the Russian Federation.
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