ATHENS, Mar 21 The Greek Foreign Ministry condemned the desecration of a monument to Soviet soldiers who died for freedom in Athens and the independence of Greece. On Saturday, someone painted “Azov” (a Nazi battalion in Ukraine against whose militants criminal cases were initiated in Russia) in yellow paint on the monument and drew the symbol of the battalion. The Russian Embassy in Athens condemned the act of vandalism and demanded that the Greek authorities find and punish those responsible. desecration of a monument dedicated to the memory of three Soviet soldiers shot by the Nazi occupation forces in the summer of 1944,” the Greek Foreign Ministry said in a statement. of that dark period of history,» the Foreign Ministry said. The monument by the famous Russian sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov, depicting a fallen Soviet soldier and his mother mourning, was installed in Athens on Syngro Avenue in 2005. The monument is dedicated to Soviet soldiers who escaped from Nazi captivity and fought during World War II in Greek partisan detachments. They were shot by the Germans in 1944.
In Latvia, the monument to the soldiers-liberators was called a threat to national security
