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Oct. 31 () –
The Russian Embassy in Latvia has denounced on Monday the withdrawal and demolition of Soviet monuments in the country and has called on the international community to reproach this attitude of the authorities of the Baltic country.
The Russian diplomatic mission in Vilnius has shown its disagreement with the removal of the monument to those who fell in World War II located in the town of Daugavplis, as well as the tributes to Soviet soldiers on the Mount of Friendship.
According to Russian diplomacy, Latvia has “grossly ignored” the guidelines of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and has criticized that Vilnius “did not give a damn” about the opinion of “hundreds of thousands of residents of its own country”. .
“Latvia’s ruling elite continues to cynically and defiantly mock the memory of the fallen heroes who saved the Latvian ethnic group from total extermination, to tear down the memorial structures erected in their honor,” the Russian Embassy has denounced, according to the agency. TASS news.
In this context, the Russian authorities have called on the international community, the different international organizations specialized in the matter, as well as NGOs to “provide a consolidated assessment of these barbaric antics of the Latvian ruling elite”.
Latvia has been one of the main countries that, with the war in Ukraine as a backdrop, has taken the opportunity to remove numerous Soviet monuments scattered throughout its public space, at the same time that it has approved political measures aimed at moving away from Russian influence, such as the use of the Russian language in classrooms.
