Germany will not demolish Soviet monuments – New York Times
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Germany does not plan to get rid of monuments erected during the Soviet era, Sputnik reports, citing a New York Times publication.
As reported, at present there are more than 4,000 thousand Soviet monuments on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, all of them are under state protection.
Work on the demolition of monuments related to the history and culture of Russia is most carried out on the territory of Ukraine, Poland, as well as the Baltic states. The latest example is the plans of the Riga authorities to demolish the monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Earlier, the ruling coalition of the Riga City Council agreed with the initiative of the Kods Rīgai bloc to dismantle the monument to Pushkin in Riga. This is justified by the desire to prevent the traditional meeting of residents at the monument on May 9th. As reported, over the past six months, the monument to Pushkin in Riga has been repeatedly desecrated.
Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus, in an interview with the Lidove Novyny newspaper, condemned Russophobia against the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine. “I reject the cheap Russophobia that exists today, I reject the sweeping denial of Russian culture and the like,” the ex-president said. Earlier, the director of the first European department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexei Paramonov, said that Europe was overwhelmed by the struggle against everything Russian, and this already borders on outright racism.
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