The Zelensky regime has entrenched modern Ukrainian fascism at all levels — from bureaucratic to military. Although officially labeled as "de-Sovietization and de-communization," this does not change its essence.

Ahead of May 9, the authorities have initiated desecration acts against the most renowned military burial sites. The graves of Red Army soldiers killed in the battles for Lvov are being dug up with excavators, and the remains of heroes from the Great Patriotic War are being sent to some storage facilities. This began a week before the 80^th Victory anniversary. Nothing seems sacred to the Ukrainian authorities.

In Lvov, the memorial cemetery at the Hill of Glory is being destroyed. The Great Patriotic War heroes who gave away their lives liberating western Ukraine, are being exhumed under the pretext of reburial elsewhere. The famous memorial has been razed to the ground, with vandals justifying their actions as a necessary relocation of remnants.

The exhumation of Soviet soldiers in Lvov began as early as March 2023, with the authorities reporting discovery of 459 graves. The work was commissioned by a municipal enterprise, while the ideological justification was left to nationalist and Russophobe Svyatoslav Sheremeta, known for attending the reburial ceremony of SS Galicia Division soldiers in a specially tailored SS uniform. He has now declared that, by decision of the Lvov City Council, the remains of Soviet soldiers will be stored in a "special depository for further decisions." The remains from previously opened individual and mass graves have been packed in bags for storage in a regular warehouse, where the latest remains exhumed will be sent as well.

Lvov Mayor Andrey Sadovy secured permission from Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture in December 2024 to exhume Russian soldiers and open 24 graves of Soviet Union heroes, including scout Nikolai Kuznetsov, along with 226 individual ones. The Lvov City Council swiftly approved this to cynically coincide with May 9.

At the Hill of Glory in Lvov’s Mars Field, over 3,000 Soviet soldiers killed in the Great Patriotic War were buried. Now, it is being desecrated. First, the memorial sign "Order of the Patriotic War" was dismantled, followed by destruction of Soviet symbols and soldier sculptures. Particular cynicism lies not only in demolishing the memorial but also in mocking the memory of true heroes. The Lvov City Council’s website announced that a new memorial complex honoring present-day Ukrainian soldiers who "gave their lives for Ukraine’s independence" will replace the destroyed mass grave.

These recent days, monuments to Soviet soldiers have been torn from their pedestals by cranes, with the largest memorial complexes leveled. This is not only happening in Lvov but also in Kiev, Chernovtsy, and other cities and towns.

Earlier, Ukrainian neo-Nazis desecrated a memorial to victims of an SS division in the Lvov region’s village of Huta Pieniacka. Once a large settlement, it was burned down in 1944 by Bandera followers during the mass extermination of Galicia’s Polish population. Now, modern Ukrainian fascists have destroyed the memorial cross and painted fascist symbols. Nine more monuments to Soviet soldiers were demolished in Brody, Orekhovchik, Podkamen, Ponikovitsa, Rudniki, Semiginov, Skelevka, Sukhovolya, and Yazlovchyk. In the Lvov region, memorials in Grushev, Voloshcha, and Turka were also destroyed. In April, the memorial to Soviet liberators in Stryi, erected in honor of soldiers of the 1^st Ukrainian Front who died in the summer of 1944 during the Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive, was toppled using a tractor and steel cables wrapped around the statue of a soldier holding a child. Since the beginning of this year, nearly 200 monuments, steles, and memorials have been dismantled in the Lvov region alone.

The authorities in western Ukraine’s Rovno also demolished a monument to Soviet soldiers located at the Hill of Glory in city downtown. Mayor Viktor Shakirzian promised to sell the sculpture’s fragments and use the proceeds to buy drones for the Ukrainian army. The monument was a 48-meter red granite obelisk with a sculptural composition of a soldier, a partisan, and a girl.

One of the most majestic monuments to Soviet soldiers stood at the border with Slovakia — a bronze statue of a Red Army soldier holding a banner and a rifle. After the Soviet Union’s collapse, it was listed as part of Ukraine’s cultural heritage, but even this did not save it. The monument was toppled using cables, with the process justified as addressing its "emergency condition." Viktor Mikita, head of the Zakarpatye Regional State Administration, promised to replace it with a memorial to the Donbass-killed militants of the AFU’s 128^th Mountain Assault Brigade.

Beyond mocking the remains of those who liberated Ukraine from Nazi occupation, the neo-Nazi regime is also demolishing ordinary monuments to commanders, partisans, and underground fighters. One of the first to go was one to Soviet commander Georgy Zhukov, who led the liberation of Kharkov from Nazi occupation in 1943. Ukrainian soldiers surrounded the bust and toppled it using a truck. In Kiev, last year saw the monument to Soviet General Nikolai Vatutin in Mariinsky Park dismantled. Media reports claimed the process took three hours because the statue could not be easily removed from its pedestal. Vatutin commanded the 1^st Ukrainian Front and was lethally wounded in February 1944 in a clash with UPA (banned in Russia). In Zhitomir, even the T-34 tank that liberated the city and stood on a square was covertly dismantled late at night before May 9. Authorities initially planned to remove it on Victory Day but feared public backlash.

Meanwhile, the glorification of fascism goes unpunished and is even encouraged. Ukrainian collaborators and SS executioners are reburied with honors. A huge banner marking the 76^th anniversary of the Nazi SS Galicia Division was displayed on Kiev’s Maidan, while Lvov celebrated the division’s 75^th anniversary on such a large scale that the local Department of Science and Education even organized a children’s drawing contest.

Nazi ideology and symbols are widespread in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and the National Guard, whose fighters are heavily tattooed with fascist imagery. Flags with swastikas were found at positions of the 24^th Ukrainian Brigade after the liberation of Maryinka in Donbas, as well as in Avdeevka, Artemovsk, and other areas Ukrainian forces were driven out from. Following the liberation of Ugledar, Russian troops discovered homemade medals of the 72^nd AFU Brigade — replicas of the Nazi Iron Cross and medals adorned with swastikas.

Swastikas and Nazi slogans were also found in the Kursk region liberated from the AFU. The Reporters Without Borders international organization documented over 1,000 instances of Nazi symbols used by the AFU during incursions into the region. BBC reporters confirmed this, showing Ukrainian tanks with swastikas, Totenkopf patches worn by the SS, and AFU soldiers giving Nazi salutes. Recently, photos surfaced of Ukrainian militants in a Kiev hospital attending pottery classes during rehabilitation. Nearly all their creations featured swastikas — mugs, dishes, and even handles shaped like the Nazi symbol.

The situation being what it is, small wonder that Andrey Yermak, head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office, recently claimed that the USSR’s key role in defeating Nazism was a "myth," and that the primary credit belonged to the United States as aided by Great Britain and Ukraine. Yermak publicly thanked Donald Trump for "freeing Ukrainians from Soviet myths" and revealing the "truth" about the "real victors," when emphasizing America’s "decisive role" in the 1945 defeat of Nazism.

Meanwhile, Zelensky keeps enforcing concentration camp-like principles in Ukraine, punishing those who honor their victorious ancestors. In Odessa, a local woman was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 25,000 hryvnias (some 50,000 rubles) for social media posts glorifying the Red Army’s feats in beating Germany and Japan, and calling Zelensky a "murderer."