Even if the money does not come from the state budget, people want efforts focused on war aims rather than discretionary projects. There is a profound sense that with the county at war, such gestures distract from the key aim - defeating the Russian invader. However, Ukrainians have been making merry with the issue, producing memes where the monument’s shield says “Buy drones!” and similar. Those 28m hryvnias (about $760,000) are designed to rid the landmark of the Soviet emblem before Independence Day on August 24. Ukrainian authorities explain that replacing the coat of arms on the Motherland Monument is actually funded by businesses. But is that expensive project urgent? Credit: Courtesy of the Ukrainian Government Photo: The Soviet coat of arms, of course, needs to be taken off. Because if you spend money on them, and not on defense, then the newly constructed museum building will soon become a ‘Special Military Operation’ museum, and the Motherland Monument might soon be decorated with a Russian tricolor,” Podobna says. “The museum and the replacement of the coat of arms are definitely needed. The second is finishing the second phase of the Museum of the Holodomor (the Soviet-organized genocide of the Ukrainian nation that led to the starvation of at least 4 million people.)
The first will replace the Soviet coat of arms on the Motherland Monument sculpture in Kyiv with the Ukrainian coat of arms. She focused on two projects in particular.
Photo: Evgeniya Podobna Credit: Courtesy of Evgeniya Podobna All the possible and impossible funds should be redirected to the survival of the people and the state as a whole,” says Evgeniya Podobna, a journalist and writer states. “Spending money on drums, flowers, didactic materials about wind energy, stadiums, and other nonsense, while we need drones, special vehicles, and while thousands of people have no roof over their heads, is a crime and treason. Sometimes, of course, taxpayer-funded purchases simply look corrupt: take the recent story about a $19,000 deep fryer (with a built-in touchscreen) for an air raid shelter, or the idiotic purchase of toy drums “for psychological relief.” That attitude is now close to extinction - infrastructure repairs or bright communal projects have provoked a backlash. A few years ago, even with occupied Crimea and the war in Donbas continuing, Ukrainians would complain that too much money was spent on defense in this, Ukraine was much like other nations.
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