Three Soviet-Era Monuments Taken Down in Kharkov
Lesson Brief
BBC Russian
Late on Saturday night, masked men dislodged three Soviet-era monuments in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov. The men were not authorized to do so but in the end, law enforcement did not stop them. The act came just days after Ukraine’s parliament issued a law outlawing Communist and Nazi propaganda inside the country.
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- deputy
- заместитель
- to interfere, disrupt
- вмешиваться, вмешаться
- to drag, pull off, pull down
- стаскивать, стащить
- step-ladder
- приставная лестница
- spontaneously
- стихийно
- instruction, command, orders
- spontaneously
- costly, wasteful
- затратный
- ski mask
- балаклава
- tractor factory
- тракторный завод
- renaming
- переименование