A Poltava, un monumento all’imperatore russo Peter I è stato smantellato. La decisione è stata approvata dal Ministero della Cultura e della politica di informazione.

Better late than never, I guess.

It’s a travesty that Peter I has been puffed up so often in foreigners’ imagination as Peter the “Great” in line with the Russians’ wishes.

Peter I got the ball rolling on the [Russification of Ukrainians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification_of_Ukraine#Russian_Empire) while he was squatting on the throne.

That will sting Poltava is where Peter defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War Putin with his revanchist ideas will be big mad.

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I’m just gonna say that was a great rigging job. It can be hard to find the center of gravity (and that little side table would have thrown me off). Nice work!

Peter the Great…more like Peter the Gone…

The one great irony of the the Russo-Ukrainian War is that it ushered in a receeding of Russian culture on a scale not seen since Germany started WW2. Countless monuments, names and immaterial aspects of Russian culture are removed that Russia’s neighbours had taken little issue in before the war.