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The Verkhovna Rada voted to pass these measures on the 9th of April 2015. President Petro Poroshenko signed them into law on May 15 of that same year. Official publication in Holos Ukrayiny appeared on the 20th of May 2015, making the statutes effective the following day.
Law no. 2538-1 granted official status to historical organizations like the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Surviving members received social benefits including free transport and subsidized medical care. Article 6 of this law stated that publicly insulting specified individuals would be illegal.
In total, 1,320 Lenin statues were removed and 1,069 monuments to other communist figures disappeared. More than 51,493 streets, squares, buildings, and settlements underwent renaming across Ukraine by June 2016. By the 27th of December 2016, twenty-five districts and 987 populated areas had been officially renamed.
On the 24th of July 2015, the Interior Ministry stripped three Communist parties of their right to participate in elections. These included the Communist Party of Ukraine, the Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed), and the Communist Party of Workers and Peasants. By the 16th of December 2015, all three parties faced legal bans within Ukraine.
A November 2016 poll revealed that 48% of respondents supported banning Communist ideology in Ukraine. Thirty-six percent opposed the measure while 16% remained undecided. Regarding monument removal, 41% backed dismantling all Lenin statues nationwide while 48% disagreed with this initiative.