The Soviet monument at the cemetery of the Red Army soldiers was destroyed in the south of Lithuania.
It was assumed that it would be "carefully" removed from the pedestal by a crane. But they couldn't be careful — the sculpture fell and split.
The local authorities justified its demolition by the fact that the existence of the monument made them think that the Soviet army was still in Lithuania.
"Though a local, though a plaster, but a Soviet soldier," concluded the mayor of the Varensky district, Algisa Kashety.
The monument was located in the cemetery of the Soviet soldier-liberators.
