I am honestly surprised it took this long, I had just assumed he was already disappeared after they banned the communist party from existing.

and prevented any teaching about the positive aspects of Soviet history in schools.

Yet when I was a kid I was still being taught how positive slavery was in the US, and how people were actually better off as slaves than free. (That school thankfully is now a parking lot, which is all it deserves). Very happy to have left that country when I was young.

From having up to 25% of the vote in some oblasts and 115.000 members to being banned, having their symbols forbidden and their leaders arrested, in the span of just 3 years. What happened to the KPU was a tragedy.

Yet another example why western style "democracy" is actually just fascism with extra steps.

Watch every "free speech" advocate, online and offline both, be either completely mute on this, or wholeheartedly support it for a variety of bullshit reasons. I can already predict some: "He was a Russian asset", "commies are ebil muh horodomoru", "they are being invaded and need security", "oh yeah well putin personally murders dissidents with a machine gun".

Poor guy. He's likely screwed

"Ukrainian democracy" for you folks

But we gotta support Ukraine because it is on the frontline of the ~~fascist~~ free world!1!1!1! /s

Didn't the previous communist leader disappear too? I remember reading a few years ago that he was found missing. Probably dead.