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OPINION: Mother Ukraine

Kyiv's Soviet-era #Motherland Monument is finally being converted from imperial symbol imposed by moscow to that of the patriotic and defiant Mother #Ukraine

By Lubomyr Luciuk

Extract

She was there every time I visited. I couldn't avoid seeing her. I would tell the locals about how ugly this gal was, how even glimpsing her triggered an atavistic rage in me, and how she needed to go. Yet she stayed exactly where she was.

Read it here https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/20256