I understand the banning of the great hammer and sickle in Europe. If a city does not reject its past, it means that it understands its process and the pain inflicted at that time. The idea is that one should cohabit with that scenario of the past. Incidentally, in urban planning, this is called culturalism, which is intermingled with the development trend itself: urban progressivism. This is something that Françoise Choay claims.
It is very sad that Tbilisi is in this state. Reality surpasses fiction. It is single-mindedness to erase the past, it always takes its toll. I say it from my own experience, people should know how everything has risen and why it is there.