Thirty years ago, on September 16, 1990, The Ukrainian Weekly reported that two statues of Lenin were toppled and dismantled in the wake of Soviet policies of perebudova, when restrictions were lifted on politics and the press, Ukrainians debated the course toward independence and fear of the Soviet state began to wane.
The article, which originally appeared in Za Vilnu Ukrainu, the newspaper of the Lviv Oblast Council, noted that a number of Lenin monuments in western Ukraine had been taken down by the local population.
Citizens of Mykolaiv, Lviv Oblast, cheered as the Lenin monument in that city center was disassembled. At that time, another monument to Lenin was taken down in Boryslav, Lviv Oblast.