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Russian authorities have erected two statues of Russian soldiers in the Siberian city of Yakutsk, replacing a monument dedicated to exiled Poles and Lithuanians, the Kyiv Post reported on Wednesday.
In the Russian city of Yakutsk in Eastern Siberia, a monument to Lithuanian and Polish exiles has quietly disappeared. First the information boards were removed, and then the huge stone blocks were gone. But even that wasn't enough - a new sculpture dedicated to locals who participated in Russia's war against Ukraine has sprung up in the same place.
The sculpture depicts two soldiers who died in September 2023 during Russia's war against Ukraine. Local authorities had already discussed plans to erect a new monument in May. A monument dedicated to the participants of the war with Ukraine was erected in place of the monument to exiled Poles. Previously, a monument dedicated to exiled Poles and Lithuanians stood in this spot. In June 2023, the plaque with the names of the exiles disappeared, a…
In Yakutsk, at the intersection of the streets of Poyarkov and Kurashova, Dmitri was officially inaugurated as a memorial to the dead participants in the war in Ukraine.
In 2023, Russians reported that unknown perpetrators stole a monument honoring Polish and Lithuanian exiles in Yakutsk and took it to an unknown destination. On Wednesday, a sculpture of a Russian hero, a participant in the war in Ukraine, who is considered a symbol of the Kremlin regime, was unveiled in its place.
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