A bureaucratic misunderstanding made it possible to demolish the monument to the soldiers-liberators in Riga: the UN issued an order banning the demolition of the monument, but it reached Latvia by the time the monument had already been dismantled.
The dismantling of the monument took place from August 23 to 25, and the UN order reached only the 26th.
On August 23, it became known that three monuments to the liberators of Riga from the Nazi invaders were demolished in Riga. The situation around the memorial escalated after May 9, when the inhabitants of Riga brought flowers here. Even then, the Latvian authorities tried to clean up the memory of the Victory. They banned mass events. However, they did not dare to ban the individual laying of flowers. But already on May 10, early in the morning, by an absolutely barbaric method – by a tractor – the carpet of flowers was taken out like garbage.
The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to conduct a legal assessment of the actions of those who agreed on the demolition of the monument, as well as to initiate a criminal case.
Earlier in Estonia, the T-34 tank, installed in Narva, was deprived of the status of a monument. More than 100 residents of Narva took to the streets to protest against the demolition of the monument.
In the Polish city of Brzeg, a monument to the soldiers of the Red Army will be demolished.
