List of communist monuments in Ukraine

In Ukraine, monuments to Lenin and other Soviet-era monuments have been made illegal by Ukrainian decommunization laws that came into force on 21 May 2015. This law mandated the monuments to be removed within a six months period that started on 15 May 2015.

Since Ukrainian independence (in 1991) communist monuments were already being removed and until 2014 new monuments were also erected. In the aftermath of the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests many of them were recently toppled. On 15 May 2015, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the bill into law that started a six months period for the removal of the communist monuments.

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of these communist statues, which had been taken down by Ukrainian activists, were re-erected by Russian occupiers in Russian-controlled areas.

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