In Lithuania, on May 1, the law on the de-Sovietization of public spaces came into force.
Municipalities will be required to remove Soviet monuments and rename streets and squares if their names are found to be associated with totalitarian ideology, SIA refers to foreign media.
The full law is called “On the prohibition of propaganda of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and their ideologies.”
According to the press service of the Seimas – the Lithuanian Parliament, the recognition of public objects as propaganda is carried out by the Center for the Study of Genocide and Resistance of the Lithuanian Population and municipal institutions.
The Saeima itself will also create an interdepartmental commission that will work on this issue.
Member of the Saeima Paule Kuzmickinė stressed that public discussion is important for the execution of the law.
“With a law that will allow not only to remove traces, but also to discuss the regime and its crimes, we will more clearly define the connection with the communist past. There will be no place for the romanticization of the regime, and communism and National Socialism will be perceived as evil, it is important for us to overcome these modes,” she said.
The Baltic countries are pursuing a consistent policy of condemning the Soviet period of their existence. In Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the period of their stay in the USSR is regarded as an occupation. Many monuments of the Soviet era were dismantled or moved.
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