The Lithuanian Culture Ministry said on Wednesday that it had prepared recommendations for the local authorities on the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 01st June, 2022) The Lithuanian Culture Ministry said on Wednesday that it had prepared recommendations for the local authorities on the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers.
"The Department of Cultural Heritage has drafted and presented detailed recommendations for Lithuanian local administrations and the association of Lithuanian local administrations concerning burial sites of Soviet soldiers during World War II and monuments located there," the ministry said in a statement.
If the Soviet soldiers' burial sites are assigned a status of local importance, the issue of their demolition should be decided by the local government's assessment board, the ministry noted.
"While preparing for the dismantling of monuments, local administrations are primarily advised to assess whether local museums or other designated spaces can store or exhibit them. If the local administration lacks such capacities, the removed monuments are recommended to be transferred to the Gruto Park Museum (an open-air museum where dismantled Soviet monuments are stored)," the statement added.
The ministry also said that monuments, gravestones and memorial plaques in cemeteries and other burial sites are being supplemented and clarified in accordance with the findings of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania.
