Last major Soviet statues come down
Workers started dismantling the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on the eastern frontier of the European Union and NATO. |||
Vilnius – Workers started dismantling monumental statues of soldiers, students, labourers and farmers in Lithuania’s capital early on Monday, the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on the eastern frontier of the European Union and NATO. Cranes began hauling them off plinths after midnight, a quarter century after the Baltic state re-emerged from the wreckage of the Soviet Union, a highly charged demolition job as Lithuania faces fresh tensions with …read more
Source: Independent Online
