Ukrainian decommunization laws

Ukrainian decommunization laws were passed in 2015, in the early stages of the <a href="/facts/Russo-Ukrainian_War/kE7cHvoQ">Russo-Ukrainian War</a>. These laws relate to <a href="/facts/Decommunization/CnEo6U26">decommunization</a> as well as commemoration of Ukrainian history, and have been referred to as "<a href="/facts/Memory_law/3raIaXjb">memory laws</a>". They outlawed the public display of <a href="/facts/Soviet_Union/m7wWsPto">Soviet</a> communist symbols and propaganda, and also outlawed the public display of <a href="/facts/Nazism/JjsMI4lE">Nazi</a> symbols and propaganda. These laws have also restricted the public display of <a href="/facts/Militarism/3HncSuk9">militarism</a> and <a href="/facts/Fascism/EhQWcPsE">fascism</a> symbols, including <a href="/facts/Rising_sun_flag/AdeLVB64">rising sun flag</a>.
As a result of the law mandating the removal of <a href="/facts/Soviet_Union/m7wWsPto">communist-era</a> monuments, and renaming places associated with communists or the USSR in general. As result, Ukraine's <a href="/facts/Toponymy/YgVWDQW3">toponymy</a> was radically changed, with many pre-1917 names restored and even more Ukrainianized names introduced. More than <a href="/facts/List_of_Ukrainian_toponyms_that_were_changed_as_part_of_decommunization_in_2016/0Nk9Yqbd">51,493 settlements, streets, squares and buildings</a> have been renamed.
The laws have raised some concerns about freedom of speech, as well as international concerns that they honor some organizations and individuals that participated in the mass murder of Jews, Poles, and Communists during the <a href="/facts/The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine/3g2baY8v">Holocaust in Ukraine</a> and <a href="/facts/Massacres_in_Volhynia/48yHw9nS">massacres in Volhynia</a>.

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Ukrainian decommunization laws