Ukrainian decommunization laws
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Ukrainian decommunization laws were passed in 2015, in the early stages of the Russo-Ukrainian War. These laws relate to decommunization as well as commemoration of Ukrainian history,[1] and have been referred to as "memory laws".[2][3] They outlawed the public display of Soviet communist symbols and propaganda, equating it with Nazi/fascist symbols and propaganda.[4]
As a result of the law mandating the removal of communist-era monuments, and renaming places associated with communists or the USSR in general. As result, Ukraine's toponymy was radically changed, with many pre-1917 names restored and even more Ukrainianized names introduced.[5] More than 51,493 settlements, streets, squares and buildings have been renamed.[6]
The laws have raised some concerns about freedom of speech, as well as international concerns that they honor some organizations and individuals that participated in the mass murder of Jews, Poles, and Communists during the Holocaust in Ukraine and massacres in Volhynia.