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The enterprise portal "Manabalss.lv" has collected just over 10,000 signatures for the dismantling of the so-called Monument to Victory. The collection of signatures in 2017 was initiated by Uģis Polis. This year, the number of signatories of the initiative began to increase, with a Victory Park reconstruction plan for several million euros.
Polis recalled earlier that the monument of victory in the park of Uzvaras, Pardaugava, had been discovered in 1985, during the illegal occupation of Latvia.
The author of the initiative is alarmed by the fact that one of the symbols reminding the Latvian people of the enormous suffering of the Soviet occupation is still at the heart of Latvia, in Riga, and that he is tall and hard to miss. "Nowadays, the Victory Monument is no longer a commemorative memorial of the liberators of the Soviet liberals, but became a strictly political event on May 9, sponsored by the Kremlin and built in the interest of Russia, implementing the broad propaganda of the Kremlin, "Polis said.
Polis was convinced that the Victory Monument was "a symbol of all the atrocities that Soviet power had committed in Latvia for 51 years and the fact that after 26 years of the existence of the Republic of Latvia, monument symbolized the enormous evil that the USSR had "it is absolutely unacceptable for Latvia, for me, for the rest of the Latvians and for the inhabitants of Latvia".
According to him, the fact that the Victory Monument is still present in the Latvian capital constitutes a "shock against all the Latvian and Latvian soldiers who gave their lives so that Latvia could be liberated from its occupants and that it there would be no sign of communism and socialism in Latvia ".
Polis believes that it is necessary that the state enters into a contract with a construction company proposing a large-scale dismantling, with public funds or seeking to attract a European fund, or to collect national donations. Polis admits that other countries of the former USSR would be willing to donate funds for this project.
As a second option, he proposes a monument to explode the national armed forces with explosives from the budget of the Ministry of Defense.
"Some time ago, a similar initiative, which had collected 10,000 signatures, had been rejected by the Mandate, Ethics and Submission Commission Saeima following the announcement by the Ministry that an international agreement had been signed between Latvia and Russia on the social protection of retired military personnel and members of their family residing in Latvia, an article prescribes the preservation and maintenance of memorial structures and mbad graves between the parties, "Polis said, adding that his initiative was also to amend the article on the grounds that" Russia has been actively busting for a long time, ignoring and ignoring the past years. International agreements and treaties ".
"I think nothing will happen if the Republic of Latvia, in connection with Russia, breaks this article on the non-destruction of the monument," said Polis.
In his opinion, such an initiative would restore the honor and dignity of the Latvian and Latvian peoples. In addition, in his opinion, the company would be united in the long term, because of the measures taken on May 9 to break up the company.
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