The building of the Seimas of Latvia. Photo credit: Sergey Alekseev / commons.wikimedia.org (CC BY 3.0)
The Latvian government has approved the dismantling of 69 Soviet military monuments, including a monument in Victory Park in Riga, as well as monuments to Red Army soldiers in Liepaja, Daugavpils and other cities of the country, TASS reports.
The list includes monuments to Soviet soldiers who liberated Latvia from invaders; monuments are located in many regions of the country. On June 23, the law allowing the dismantling of Soviet symbols came into force. According to the document, the government is given the right to develop lists of monuments for dismantling.
Not all residents and local authorities of Latvia agree with the intention of the country's authorities to demolish all monuments to Soviet soldiers-liberators. At the end of June it became known about the intention of the Daugavpils authorities to challenge the said law in the Constitutional Court. Earlier, the city authorities noted that most of the monuments to Soviet soldiers were located on burial sites, which, according to Latvian law, makes it impossible to demolish the monuments.
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