A mural dedicated to the first Soviet spaceman Yuri Gagarain is seen on a residential building in Kharkiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Alongside its military push, Ukrainians are waging a cultural counteroffensive, renaming hundreds of Soviet-era streets, dismantling statues and removing Russian literature from bookshelves. Photo: AFP
Russian masterpieces are hidden away in a Ukrainian museum, writers like Pushkin and Dostoyevsky are shunned and the Russian language is eschewed.
As the war grinds on, Ukrainians are accelerating efforts to expunge Russian cultural influences.
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