Ukrainian city demolishes monument to Russian general who beat Napoleon.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Strange to call this 'desecration'

It's a monument to a man who didn't have anything to do with the city. Why do you hold it sacred? He died of natural causes at the age of 67. RT's description of it as a 'war monument' is strange - he didn't die in a war, there was no fighting in that area that he was associated with, he wasn't from there. It's basically a statue of a foreigner, which they've taken down (not 'demolished' - they used a crane to lower the bust carefully to the truck, as the video shows).

"A local council approved the move of the memorial to a less prominent location in December". So, the locals haven't thought much of it for some time.

Frankly, I now think this should never have been in LBN. "City in western Ukraine proceeds with plan to take down a bust of Russian who had nothing to do with the city" - this is not important news of national interest in the USA.