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Addressing participants of the Second Ecumenical Week held in Lviv Catholic University, Kateryna Yushchenko has called on all Ukrainians to pull down monuments to the Communist past, ZIK reports Oct. 6. According to the First Lady, the Communist regime had been consistently active destroying the Ukrainian church. Having destroyed age-long belief in Christ, the Communists proposed their own idols instead. The culture and faith of Ukrainians was deformed and are in need of renovation, she said.

First Lady calls to pull down monuments to Lenin in Ukraine