In Vilnius, by the end of summer, a memorial will be dismantled at the largest burial place of Soviet soldiers in Lithuania at the Antakalnitsky cemetery. The Russian Embassy has already warned Vilnius about possible retaliatory measures at the burial sites of repressed Lithuanians on the territory of the Russian Federation.
On the eve, the Lithuanian Department of Cultural Heritage removed the stone steles installed at the memorial from protection.
< p>Vilnius Mayor Remigius Simasius spoke about this on the LRT national radio on June 8.
“Further actions of the municipality will depend on when the documentation will be streamlined, when these objects will be transferred to the ownership of the city, and the City Council will announce my decision. I hope that by the end of the summer there will be no more of them,” Šimašius said.
The war memorial at the Antakal cemetery was created in 1951. More than 3,000 Red Army soldiers who died in 1944 during the liberation of Vilnius from the Nazis are buried there. In 1984, six stelae were installed at the memorial – stylized figures made of light gray granite depicting fighters of various branches of the armed forces.
Recall that in mid-May, the American media reported that the Baltic countries and Poland asked NATO to significantly expand the military presence in their territories to complicate a possible Russian invasion.
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