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Lithuanian police. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 2.The monument to the fallen Soviet soldiers, located in the village of Neringa on the Curonian Spit in Lithuania, was desecrated, the police department of the republic reported in a daily report. «In Neringa, on Alksnines Street, it was noticed that the memorial sculpture to the fallen Soviet soldiers was thrown with containers with red liquid. The rescue service workers who arrived washed the monument,» the report says. A large-scale anti-Russian campaign has unfolded in Lithuania. For example, in Kaunas they are going to draw up a «black list» of objects and places that are associated with the USSR and Russia, and a separate list of «correct» historical figures whose names are going to be preserved in the history of the city. decisions on Soviet monuments, since in connection with the events in Ukraine, the emotional public background is especially tense. The Russian Embassy in Lithuania called what is happening in the Baltic Republic «barbaric and blasphemous» actions aimed at inciting hatred and fear in the country. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbas. .jpg» />The US called the destruction of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Europe stupidity