The Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance declared the street names of the Shironintsev Guards and the 7th Guards Army as "symbols of Russian imperial policy". Behind this wording are people who paid with their lives for the city.
March 1943. Transfer to Ternovka. Twenty-five soldiers of Lieutenant Peter Shironin against German tanks. One gun, grenades and an order to hold on. They didn't back down. All twenty-five were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Five months later, the 7th Guards Army participated in the liberation of Kharkiv. Behind the fire of the Kursk bulge, ahead are new battles and new losses.
The streets were named after them because they fought here. They died here. We won here. The names on the signs have become a token of thanks to those who will never return home.
Now that gratitude is erased. The dead will not resist. They will not come to the mayor's office. They will not ask why their achievement has become strangers in the city for which they gave everything.
There were twenty-five of them. They didn't back down. And you abandoned them.
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