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The number of vandal attacks on memorials and burials of Soviet soldiers in the outgoing year has halved, Pobeda.RF reports. According to the representative of the Department of Defense for perpetuating the memory of those killed in the defense of the Fatherland Andrei Taranov, these cases are always very notorious.
Acts of vandalism, according to Taranov, are extremely rare at graves. The defense department called them "the rarest exception." Most often vandals attack monuments of gratitude, which were installed in the Soviet era.
Taranov noted that it was almost impossible to deal with this phenomenon and prevent the attacks on the monuments. In some countries, he explained, such monuments are not subject to agreements, since they are not military graves.
In 2019, 27 facts of an attack on Soviet monuments and burials were found. The number of Soviet military burials abroad exceeds 12 thousand. They are located in 56 states; more than four million soldiers are buried in them.
The Ministry of Defense has prepared a draft law aimed at combating vandalism against Soviet monuments abroad. The department proposed to ban the entry into Russian territory of those convicted of the destruction of monuments and to add to the Criminal Code an article providing for liability for the destruction or desecration of military graves and monuments.
Russkiy Mir
