Though Ukraine relied heavily on the past after 2014 – as Russia does today – the nation is currently united and doesn't require material historical legitimation. Streets are being renamed in honor of today's heroes. As a member of the Kyiv renaming commission
notes, the hasty and radical struggle against the "Russian world" is already leading to
miscalculation: the government recommended that the commission consider a long list of objects to be renamed and proposals of both Ukrainian and foreign educators, artists, scientists and other eminent persons. The renaming commission
released the final results of the voting – in one instance Yuri Gagarin Prospect was proposed to be renamed Neil Armstrong Prospect, though in the end the option with Leonid Kadenyuk, first astronaut from independent Ukraine, won out.