Abstract
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the impact of Soviet memorials to the Great Patriotic War in the Poltava oblast (central Ukraine) on the positioning of new war memorials in the post-Soviet urban landscape. Focusing on two key factors (availability of sites and their symbolic potency), the article shows that the Soviet memorials to the Great Patriotic War played an important role in how the memorials to the Soviet–Afghan war were positioned in the urban landscape of independent Ukraine, and that this prepared the ground for present-day discussions about the most appropriate way to position the memorials to the Russia–Ukraine conflict. The article contributes to discussions of the importance of the urban landscape in monument-building and elucidates the path-dependent nature of commemorations.
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