Occupiers dismantle monument to victims of Holodomor in MariupolIRYNA BALACHUK — WEDNESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2022, 12:41The Russian occupiers dismantled the Monument to Victims of Holodomor and Political Repression, erected in the centre of Mariupol in 2004, on the morning of 19 October.Yevhenia Krotova, a Russian-installed puppet governor and representative of the "central headquarters" of Molodaya Respublica (Young Republic) public organisation, has said that the occupiers were not at war with the monuments, but were removing the symbol of "disinformation at state level".Artem Bobrovskyi, a henchman of the Russian invaders, Head of the Department of the Donetsk National University, with a PhD in Historical Science, claimed that there was no Holodomor [man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 which killed millions of Ukrainians - ed.]For reference: The Monument to Victims of Holodomor and Political Repression was erected in 2004 in a small square on Universytetska Street near the Mariupol Drama Theatre, which was destroyed by the occupiers in March 2022.On a low, rectangular pedestal, divided into two parts, made of black and red granite, ears of corn and barbed wire are depicted, tied with a ribbon, which is the symbol of the Gulag [a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union — ed.]."