Chapter 6 Responding to Invasion: Toppling Monuments, Building Monuments
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2025

Monuments defiantIn addition to becoming decontextualized symbols of resistance in the form of memes and online photographs, monuments and especially war memorials both inside and outside the occupied areas served Ukrainians locally as canvases for anti-occupation messages.This kind of use had already begun following the initial Russian invasion in 2014.One example is the gilded eagle on top of the Monument of Glory in central Poltava, a 10 meter tall cast iron column installed in 1811 to commem