In the temporarily occupied Mariupol in the Donetsk region, the Russian invaders dismantled a monument to the Holodomor victims, which was erected in the city centre in 2004. The monument was dismantled on October 19, 2022, with the help of a truck crane, the granite from it is planned to be processed into building materials.
The occupiers and collaborators stated that they supposedly removed the symbol of “disinformation at the state level” in this way. At the same time, the collaborator, the head of the department of the Donetsk National University, Artem Bobrovsky, said there was no Holodomor in Ukraine. He repeated the propagandist thesis that the famine of 1932-33 was the most affected not by Ukraine (including the Donbas) but by Kazakhstan, the Volga Region, and the North Caucasus. Ukraine, according to the collaborator, was “practically in last place” among other territories of the former USSR in terms of the number of victims.
Information about the demolition of the monument appeared on social networks and Russian propaganda media on October 19, 2022.
