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Vandals desecrated a memorial in Lithuanian city of Marijampole, IA BalkNews advises. The memorial was set in honor of the communists killed by local “forest brothers”. Guerrilla fighters against the Soviet-regime fired at the truck with Soviet activists killing the majority of passengers in summer 1946.
Unknown criminals drew swastika and the red star at the memorial. The local police started investigation, while there is not any response from the local authorities to this outrageous incident so far.
This crime can be referred to as an expected result of the politics regarding monuments conducted by Vilnius.
Intensification of the ideological struggle with monuments has been recently observed in Lithuania. Tables stating that the inscriptions do not correspond to the historical truth appeared by the monuments to Soviet soldiers.
Later, a group of Lithuanian parliament members issued a bill on conduction of large-scale revision of all military graves. The bill’s authors called the memorials “dummies” and proposed to dismantle them and change the inscriptions of the graves so that they should correspond to the so-called historical truth in their own understanding.
Russkiy Mir
