The Lithuanian Parliament amended the laws allowing the transportation of the remains of Soviet soldiers, adding them to the list of public places that support the prohibited ideology. This was reported by RIA News.
89 MPs voted in favor of the bill, five abstained and no one opposed.
According to the document, it is stated that the ban on the destruction of graves and cemeteries included in the Cultural Heritage Registry will be lifted if the burial places are considered “propaganda of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and their ideologies”.
This initiative belongs to the residents of the city of Siauliai, who advocated the transfer of the remains of 52 Soviet soldiers buried at the entrance to the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul.
It was reported in February at a cemetery in Alytus County in southern Lithuania. irreverent Two funerals from the Great Patriotic War.
Previously in Latvia ruined Monument to Soviet liberators in Riga near the NATO base.
Previously in Russia in the name React more harshly to the destruction of Soviet monuments in Lithuania.