Kiev Rebellion

Basic Info
The Kiev Rebellion were a series of revolts around Ukraine by nationalists, patriots, democrats, republicans, and revolutionaries. This would weaken the soviet control over the Ukrainian SSR, and they would continue there revolutions in order to create an autonomous state, excluded from communism.

Past Decommunization
An unofficial decommunization process started in Ukraine after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and the following independence of Ukraine. Decommunization was carried out much more ruthlessly and visibly in the (former Soviet Union's) Baltic States and the former Warsaw Pact countries outside the Soviet Union. Ukraine's first president after the country's 1991 independence from the Soviet Union, Leonid Kravchuk, had also issued orders aimed at "de-sovietisation" in the early 1990s. The following years, although at a slow rate, historical monuments to Soviet leaders were removed in Ukraine. But this process went on much further in the Ukrainian-speaking western regions than in the industrialised, largely Russian-speaking eastern regions. Decommunization laws were drafted in the Ukrainian parliament in 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011 and 2013, but they all failed to materialize.

During and after Euromaidan, starting with the fall of the monument to Lenin in Kyiv on 8 December 2013, several Lenin monuments and statues were removed or destroyed by protesters.

In April 2014, a year before the formal, nationwide decommunization process in Ukraine local authorities removed and altered communist symbols and place names, as in Dnipropetrovsk.

On 9 April 2015, the Ukrainian parliament passed legislation on decommunization. It was submitted by the Second Yatsenyuk Government, banning the promotion of symbols of "Communist and National Socialist totalitarian regimes". One of the main provisions of the bill was the recognition of the Soviet Union was "criminal" and one that it "pursued a state terror policy". The legislation prohibits the use of Communist symbols and propaganda and also bans all symbols and propaganda of national-socialism and its values and any activities of Nazi or fascist groups in Ukraine. The ban applies to monuments, place and street names. The ban does not apply to World War II monuments and when symbols are located in a cemetery. Expressing pro-communist views was not made illegal. The ban on communist symbols did result in the removal of hundreds of statues, the replacement of millions of street signs and the renaming of populated places including some of Ukraine's biggest cities like Dnipro. The city administration of Dnipro estimated in June 2015 that 80 streets, embankments, squares, and boulevards would have to be renamed. Maxim Eristavi of Hromadske.TV estimated late April 2015 that the nationwide renaming would cost around $1.5 billion. The legislation also granted special legal status to veterans of the "struggle for Ukrainian independence" from 1917 to 1991 (the lifespan of the Soviet Union). The same day, the parliament also passed a law that replaced the term "Great Patriotic War" in the national lexicon with "World War II" from 1939 to 1945, a change of great significance.

On 15 May 2015, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the Decommunization Laws. This started a six-month period for the removal of communist monuments and renaming of public places named after communist-related themes.

Symbols of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (flag and emblem).

The Ukrainian decommunization law applies, but is not limited to:


 * the Flag of the Soviet Union
 * the Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and its 14 other republics
 * the State Emblem of the Soviet Union and its constituent republics as well as the socialist countries of Eastern Europe
 * the State Anthem of the Soviet Union and the republics
 * the Red star
 * the Hammer and sickle
 * images bearing the likeness of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin
 * military uniforms

The laws were published in Holos Ukrayiny on 20 May 2015; this made them come into force officially the next day.

On 3 June 2015, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory published a list of 22 cities and 44 villages subject to renaming. By far most of these places were in the Donbass region in East Ukraine; the others were situated in Central Ukraine and South Ukraine. Under the Decommunization Laws the municipal governments had until 21 November 2015 to change the name of the settlement they govern. For settlements that failed to rename, the provincial authorities had until 21 May 2016 to change the name. If after that date the settlement still retained its old name the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine renamed the settlement.

In a 24 July 2015 decree based on the decommunization laws, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry stripped the Communist Party of Ukraine, Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) and Communist Party of Workers and Peasants of their right to participate in elections and it stated it was continuing the court actions (that started in July 2014) to end the registration of Ukraine's communist parties.

On 30 September 2015, the District Administrative Court in Kyiv banned the parties Communist Party of Workers and Peasants and Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed); they both did not appeal.

In October 2015, a statue of Lenin in Odessa was converted into a statue of Star Wars villain Darth Vader.

On 16 December 2015, the Kyiv District Administrative Court validated the claim of the Ministry of Justice in full, banning the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The party appealed this ban at the European Court of Human Rights.

The City Hall of Mykolaiv in 2006 (left) and 2017 (right). The star, reminiscent of the Soviet era Red star still visible in the 2006 picture, was replaced on November 2016 by the coat of arms of Ukraine.

In March 2016, statues of Lenin, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Sergey Kirov and a Komsomol monument were removed or taken down in the eastern city of Zaporizhia. The statue overlooking the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (formerly named Lenin Dam) was the largest remaining Lenin statue in Ukraine.

On 19 May 2016, the Ukrainian parliament voted to rename Ukraine's fourth-largest city Dnipropetrovsk to "Dnipro". The renaming of various locations was signed into the law on 20 May 2016.

The Ukrainian parliament declared in July 2016 that the new names of places in Crimea, under full Russian control since the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, "will enter force with the return of temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol under the general jurisdiction of Ukraine."

In May 2017, 46 Ukrainian MPs, mainly from the Opposition Bloc faction, appealed to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to declare the 2015 decommunization laws unconstitutional.

Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Viatrovych stated in February 2018 that "De-communism in the context of depriving the symbols of the totalitarian regime has actually been completed". Although according to him the city of Kyiv was lagging behind.

In February 2019, the Central Election Commission of Ukraine refused to register the candidacy of (leader of Communist Party) Petro Symonenko for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election due to the fact that the statute, name and symbolism of the Communist Party of Ukraine did not comply with the 2015 decommunization laws. Symonenko appealed the decision, but the court of appeal confirmed decision of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine. During the same month of February, it was announced that the oblast of Dnipropetrovsk would be renamed to "Sicheslav" in the future.

On 16 July 2019, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine upheld the 2015 Ukrainian decommunization laws.

On 7 November 2020 in the village Mala Rohan [uk], a coat of arms of the USSR was dismantled from the facade of a school.

2021 - 2022 Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
The aggravation of Russian-Ukrainian relations occurred in late October – early November and was provoked by the first combat use of the Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) against the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) formations. The message about the use of UAVs appeared almost simultaneously with the news about the occupation of the village of Staromarievka [uk; hy; ru; zh-min-nan] on the contact line of the parties, in which 37 Russian citizens who received passports under the simplified program lived at the time.

Speaking at a defence-related meeting on November 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia was closely monitoring the use of UAVs "near the borders of Russia" and should carefully analyze the situation in this regard. According to OSCE observers, the ceasefire regime began to be violated twice as often as in 2020 (during the period from the evening of 29 October to the evening of 31 October, the ceasefire regime in the Donetsk region was violated 988 times, and in Luhansk — 471 times). OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) observers reported on the movement of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as repeated attempts to muffle the signal of its UAVs, which are used to monitor the terrain. At the same time, publications appeared in Western media that Russia was again pulling troops to the Ukrainian border. Satellite photos of Russian armoured vehicles were cited as evidence.

On 2–3 November, the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, met with senior Russian intelligence officials at Moscow. According to CNN, the purpose of the trip was to convey to the Kremlin U.S. President Joe Biden's concern about the situation on the border with Ukraine. Sources of the TV channel reported that after the trip, Burns spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to ease tensions between Moscow and Kyiv. For the same purpose, a high-ranking official of the US State Department was sent to Ukraine on 4 November.

The military aggravation was accompanied by aggravation in the Ukrainian political field. On November 2, Dmytro Yarosh, the former leader of the Right Sector organization, was appointed adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny [uk; et; ru]. On 4 November, a new defence minister was approved — former Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Oleksii Reznikov, who participated in the meetings of the Trilateral Contact Group on behalf of Ukraine.

In November 2021, the Russian Defense Ministry described the deployment of the U.S. warships to the Black Sea as a "threat to regional security and strategic stability." The ministry said in a statement, "The real goal behind the U.S. activities in the Black Sea region is exploring the theatre of operations in case Kyiv attempts to settle the conflict in the southeast by force."

On 13 November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Russia has again amassed 100,000 troops in the border area. In early November, reports of Russian military buildups prompted U.S. officials to warn the EU that Russia could be planning a potential invasion of Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied allegations that Russia is preparing for a possible invasion of Ukraine. He accused Ukraine of "planning aggressive actions against Donbass." Peskov urged NATO to stop "concentrating a military fist" near Russia's borders and to stop arming Ukraine with modern weapons.

World War 3
With the USSR committing genocide on protesters in Ukraine, the United States, which by this time was protecting the rebellion, had declared war on Russia, getting NATO involved into the war. Around 6.8 Million Ukrainian people died in either War, Genocide, Famine, Work Camps, or Execution. There war also lots of nuclear and maritime war.