Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko opposed the initiative to close the museum of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov in Kyiv. The head of the Ministry of Culture stated this at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday, September 2.
“What prevented the Union of Writers from the Bulgakov Museum in Kyiv, I don’t know. Bulgakov is from Kiev. Yes, in some works of art he had, I emphasize, replicas of certain heroes regarding the liberation struggle of Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century. But I think that the museum is definitely not to blame. Not a museum, not a monument. I think that the union has something to do, something to solve the issues of the Bulgakov Museum,” the UNIAN agency quotes the minister as saying.
Tkachenko emphasized separately that “the museum should not be touched.”
On August 31, it was reported that the National Union of Writers of Ukraine called for the closure of the museum of the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov in Kyiv, instead it was proposed to open the Museum of the Ukrainian composer Alexander Koshyts.
Earlier, on August 14, a bust of writer Maxim Gorky was dismantled in Ukrainian Alexandria. The demolition of the monument was preceded by the decision of the session and the executive committee of the city council. They said that the monument would be stored on the territory of the utility company that carried out the dismantling.
Since 2015, a policy of decommunization has been pursued in Ukraine within the framework of the law “On the Condemnation of the Communist and Nazi Regimes”. The law provides for the renaming of all topographic objects whose names are reminiscent of the USSR, as well as the demolition of monuments and the dismantling of memorial plaques.
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