Police officers and participants in the flower-laying ceremony at the memorial complex «Monument to the soldiers of the Soviet Army — the liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German fascist invaders» in Riga. File photoMOSCOW, May 12.United Russia MP Sergei Burlakov called permission to demolish the monument to the Liberators of Riga in the Latvian parliament an act blasphemous, but expected. On Thursday, the Latvian parliament allowed the demolition of the monument to the Liberators of Riga. Parliamentarians urgently approved a bill terminating the article of the Russian-Latvian treaty on the preservation of memorial structures. «The act is blasphemous, but expected. The abolition of the Russian in Europe is now in vogue. Only history cannot be erased by the demolition of monuments and the abolition of the St. George ribbon,» Burlakov told RIA News.According to him, no country should forget about the consequences of such a terrible ideology as fascism. with human memory. Even if the monument is demolished, people will continue to bring flowers to this place, continue to meet here on Victory Day and honor the memory of Soviet soldiers,» the parliamentarian added.
The MP called the decision to demolish the monument to the Liberators of Riga outrageous
