In early June 2024, reports diverged in social networks that one of the attractions of the Ukrainian capital was painted in rainbow colors as part of the celebration of the Pride. We checked the reliability of this news.
In many countries June counts The month of pride - it is then that there are demonstrations and other events devoted to LGBTK+rights. On June 3, 2024, posts appeared on the Web, the authors of which claimed: in honor of the pride, the authorities of Kyiv repainted the arch of freedom of the Ukrainian people, previously known as the arch of friendship of peoples. As confirmation of publications, a video was often attached, which, for example, the Telegram channel "Zlaya Pruf”(203,000 views) commented as follows:“ In view of the Hokhly gay-parades, who was approaching in the Heirop, also decided to keep up and stained the arch of the Friendship of Peoples in LGBT colors. ”
According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, more than 200 similar publications appeared in Telegram, which scored about 2 million views in total. So, the channels of TV presenters wrote about the repainting of the arches Olesya Loseva (14,000 views) and Oscars Kuchera (29,000), as well as "Observer"(213 000),"Uncle Glory"(198,000), Voblya (142 000), "Urgently, now"(48 000),"Mriya"(45,000),"Batkovich"(40,000),"Boiling water"(38,000) and"Info DPR"(32 000). Similar posts appeared in public in VKontakte (examples here, here And here), and the Tsargrad television channel wrote about the repainting of the Kyiv attractions on his page in "Zen".
The Arc of Friendship of Peoples was erected in Kyiv in the early 1980s, and on May 14, 2022, the authorities of the Ukrainian capital Rename Its in the arch of freedom of the Ukrainian people. Mayor of the city Vitaly Klitschko explainedWhat was done as part of the decommunization policy. April 17, 2024, by a decision of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Arca was seized From the register of immovable monuments and objects of cultural heritage. In the statement of the department It was notedthat thereby the monument has lost the status of a historical monument and can be dismantled. However, on April 25, the Department of Culture of the Kyiv City State Administration reportedthat in the capital they will not dismantle one of the “business cards of the city”, but the space near it will reorganize.
In the distributed video, the arch is shown from several angles, and rainbow colors are really visible on its arch. Note that only five colors are applied to the monument (orange, yellow, green, blue and purple), while the classic LGBT flag - six -color (red is added to the above). At the same time, the center of the video shows a titer with the alleged quote from the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory of Anton Drobovich: “It is not necessary to demolish the former arch of friendship of peoples. As an option - to turn it into a LGBT symbol. ”
Similar words Drobovich are really pronounced In an interview with Interfax -Ukraine, published on May 20. In the conversation, he stated that the dismantling of the arch “from the point of view of contents and contexts is more natural”, but noted that it can be preserved, “if the city and community will truly rethink it”. The journalist recalled that previously Drobovich expressed the idea to paint the arch in the colors of the rainbow, and asked if it was advisable, given the “previous attempt” and the stigmatization of the LGBTK+community in Ukraine. The head of the Institute of the National Peninsula answered this way:
“I see three scenarios of the development of events around this object. The first script is complete dismantling. The second option is to leave everything as it is, and then there will be a forced dismantling, because sooner or later the citizens themselves will do it, as they did with Lenin. The third option is to leave the arch and make, as in 2017, from it a rainbow as a LGBT symbol or just a symbol of the rainbow above the water. Why did I personally liked the rainbow of all previous options most? For it is the only one really attaches a different meaning. ”
Both the interviewer and Drobovich talked about the previous attempt to decorate the arch in rainbow colors undertaken in 2017, when Kyiv accepted Eurovision. Contest Passed Under the slogan Celebrate Diversity. They called it ARC of Diversity. However, the arch was not quite repainted - in fact it began Cover stripes of multi -colored film. To do it to the end failed Due to the protests that began-right-wing radical activists (including from the Right Sector and the Freedom Party) were seen in the project “Hidden propaganda of LGBT” and Blocked work. They were not embarrassed that he was in the arch for many years built -in Multi -colored backlight, thanks to which in the dark, the structure shone like a rainbow.
In 2024, the monument was again decorated with rainbow flowers, “checked” did not find. We also did not find on social networks confirming these pictures and videos.
The video that spread through the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels was shot in the same 2017, which is indicated by many signs. For example, from some angles under the arch, bronze statues of Ukrainian and Russian workers are visible (00: 01–00: 02) and a granite sculptural group in honor of the Pereyaslav Rada (00: 14–00: 17). They were dismantled In April 2022 And In April 2024 year, respectively. In addition, the video distributed shows the same people in the same clothes that decorated the arch seven years ago, and at the end of the video the same areas of the structure are visible that Before they had time Decorate in 2017 due to protests.
Satirical Telegram channel "Biden's panties”(12,000 views) in a similar publication posted on June 4, 2024, I used not a video, but a photo with the signature:“ They did it all the same. The very arch was repainted in LGBT-Flower. ” "Verified" found out that the picture shown was Made In Kyiv on May 4, 2017, the Reuters agency correspondent.
At the end of Eurovision-2017, the film remaining on the arch Removed. Subsequently, the monument was again used for installations. So, in November 2018, in solidarity with Ukrainian political prisoners, who are held in Russian prisons, on the arch of friendship of peoples appeared The image in the form of a crack.
Thus, in June 2024, the arch of freedom of the Ukrainian people in Kyiv was not painted in the colors of the LGBT Flag in honor of the month of pride. In Runet, a video of seven years ago was distributed - it shows a monument to which multi -colored tapes were pasted in honor of the Eurovision Support contest in the Ukrainian capital.
Photo on the cover: hmarochos.kiev.ua / Gennadiy Kurochka (Facebook)
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