Slovakia. File photoPRAGUE, May 15.Slovak Prosecutor General Maros Zilinka sharply condemned the desecration of a monument to Soviet soldiers in the city of Piestany and said that an investigation would be conducted on the subject of extremism. The Russian Embassy in Bratislava reported on Saturday about an act of vandalism against a monument to Soviet soldiers-liberators in the city of Piestany in western Slovakia. The vandals put on the monument a symbol that is the emblem of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regiment «Azov» (criminal cases have been initiated against its fighters in Russia). tank division «Reich» and later the Dutch 34th SS Volunteer Infantry Division «Landstorm Nederland», and which is currently on the banner and emblem of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion — this is not just a desecration. It is about the application of the symbols used extremist and radical groups, and in a completely obvious context,» Zhilinka wrote on the social network. In this regard, the investigation will look for signs of extremism in the crime, he added.Mironov called for equating the desecrators of monuments with Nazi accomplices. As the Prosecutor General of Slovakia emphasized, such actions are completely unacceptable and cannot be covered up by some kind of false solidarity with Ukraine. hatred,” Zhilinka concluded. Cases of desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Europe have recently become more frequent. The Latvian authorities approved a bill terminating the article of the Latvian-Russian treaty on the preservation of memorial structures — thus they had a legal basis for dismantling the monument to the liberators in the park of Riga. At the same time, earlier in May, unknown vandals desecrated the monument at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in the city on in the north-west of Lithuania, monuments to Soviet soldiers in the cities of the country were repeatedly desecrated. On May 9, vandals desecrated the memorial cemetery of Soviet soldiers on Zhvirki and Vigury Street in Warsaw (Poland). Monuments in Estonia, Bulgaria, Germany and other countries were also desecrated.
