Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, said that the words of singer Laima Vaikule about the need to demolish monuments to Soviet soldiers are nonsense. wrote about him telegraph channel.
Zakharova believes that Vaikule “went to a new record of incompetence”, and such statements are possible only “because of complete ignorance and inhuman evil.” The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reminded that the word “monument” comes from “memory”, not “artistic value”.
He emphasized that those who give names to monuments erected in honor of those who gave their lives for others, that do not see artistic value, are called barbarians.
Previously, Soviet and Latvian pop singer Laima Vaikule on her YouTube channel statedThat the monuments to the fallen soldiers of the Great Patriotic War have no artistic value.