Dunkley, Mark2023-09-192023-09-192023-05-02Dunkley M. (2023) Monumental decisions: the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war on Soviet war memorials, The Historic Environment: Policy and Practice, Volume 14, Issue 2, June 2023, pp. 227-2351756-7505https://doi.org/10.1080/17567505.2023.2207165https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/20239As a direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2002, Soviet monuments across Eastern Europe – particularly those commemorating the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army in the Second World War – are being subject to accelerated removal. These monuments signify a mixture of victory and liberation; loss and grief; and occupation, tyranny and foreign rule, and their removal is deepening divisions between Russia and Ukraine and makes the restoration of peace and the normalcy of international relations more elusive.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Article1756-7513