On the shield which is 62-meter tall on the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, workers raise the Ukrainian trident, the Ukrainian national symbol and the contemporary small state emblem of Ukraine. The monument "Motherland" is located on the territory of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II. It was built in 1981 and is considered the tallest sculpture in Europe. On May 3, 2023, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law allowing the dismantling of monuments of Soviet and imperial culture. On July 13, the State Inspection of Architecture and Urban Planning issued a permit to replace th
On the shield which is 62-meter tall on the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, workers raise the Ukrainian trident, the Ukrainian national symbol and the contemporary small state emblem of Ukraine. The monument "Motherland" is located on the territory of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II. It was built in 1981 and is considered the tallest sculpture in Europe. On May 3, 2023, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law allowing the dismantling of monuments of Soviet and imperial culture. On July 13, the State Inspection of Architecture and Urban Planning issued a permit to replace the emblem of the USSR on the shield of the monument with the Ukrainian trident.
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