A destructive instinct still urges some people to pull down memorials to the Soviet soldiers, thinks Povilas Gilis, Ex-Foreign Affairs Minister for Lithuania. Strange as it may seem they are still under the influence of Bolsheviks’ thinking, reports RIA News.
The politician is sure that when people
destroy the stone idols they don’t realize that they only make the spiritual idols surrounding them stronger .
Note that the Lithuanian authorities previously demanded that the memorials to the Soviet soldiers who had died in the World War One and Two should be pulled down. The graves at the Vilnius cemetery contain the remains of the Russian soldiers killed in 1915 while protecting the city. Other graves contain the bodies of six identified and one unidentified soldiers. According to Diana Varnaite, the Head of Cultural Heritage Department, the memorials need to be dismantled because the remains may have been identified wrongly.
As previously reported by the Russkiy Mir Foundation, Vilnius’ policy in respect to wartime memorials is aimed at re-thinking the history and glorifying those who used the excuse of fighting the occupants to shed blood of peaceful citizens. The inevitable results of this policy are the vandals’ attacks on the monuments.
Russkiy Mir
