Some more info on the UPA would be useful (don't assume UK readers know what the letters UPA even stand for), because Ukranian people - people everywhere - have every right to smash up statues of Lenin

The U.P.A were a nationalist paramilitary unit, supporters of the U.P.A attacked the Lenin statue

So glad to learn that it was far right twats who attacked the statue of Lenin.
Bewildered cnuts who have no notion of what the great man did for humanity.

There are nationalists, yes (and it seems the fascist Svobada supporters were responsible for the felling of Lenin)... and the nationalists have taken over the City Hall. But that's not all... the main square is also full of neoliberal capitalist lackeys... but another square is occupied by DIY protesters who are organising horizontally and don't seem to like any of the political parties... It's a cocktail rather than purely fascist. As this LibCom article says, it could go either way:

 https://tahriricn.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/ukraine-whats-going-on-and-what-does-it-mean/

Dora Kaplan
Politics in Ukraine is ethnic, not class based. A lot of Ukranians remember the famine, and still hate the Russian speaking emigres delivered by Stalin, and the complements returned in kind.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
“Chicken Kiev, CIA, how many kids did you kill today?”

INCUBUS
Or it was class-based until Denikin’s White Armies and German imperialists got in the mix after the revolution, then came Stalin’s famine then the nazi occupation, with the Ukrainians west of the River Bug being promoted from ‘slav subhumans’ into German allies, with the Cossacks deemed to be ‘Honorary Aryans’, who had no problem exterminating Jews, Gypsies, Poles and anyone else who didn’t fit with with their vision of joining a racially homogenous idea of Europe (including providing guards for Auschwitz). The Russians who were ‘bussed in’ by Stalin east of the Bug share in the mutual distrust and hatred (25-30 million Russians having been exterminated by Nazism). Those Nationalist Ukrainians who resisted both Nazism and Stalinism in the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) even fought a guerilla war against Soviet power up until the late fifties- and it’s their black and red flags being seen on the streets of Kiev today (perhaps a throwback to Makhno?), but they were also responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Poles from Volhynia in the disputed western part of Ukraine.
It’s quite shocking to think that only 20 years earlier the Ukraine had one of the biggest anarchist movements in Europe, but the Red Terror put paid to that, along with the military forces of western Europe. Any people seeking the ‘protection’ of one great power bloc over another will always come off badly, sacrificing their autonomy by exchanging one master for another.

Oh give it a rest. #OccupyKiev is the crown jewel of #OWS and more anarchists and commnists among our ranks than the fringe right who are constrained by our mass movement. We don't need your RT RIA dysinformation. The pot is calling the kettle black as Putin is #1 Fasist.