Removal of Red Army's victory memorial in Latvia angers ethnic Russians

1. A new law to remove Soviet-era monuments in Latvia because of the invasion of Ukraine has caused anger among the country's ethnic Russian community. (@euronews)
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2. Latvia, Riga. Flowers to Soviet soldiers liberators from fascism in 1945
On May 9, residents of Riga laid flowers at the memorial of the victory over fascism in World War II. The next day, May 10, early in the morning, the government bulldozed all the flowers. After learning about this, on the afternoon of May 10, people brought several times more flowers and guarded the monument.(@The truth is news)
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3. Latvia has begun work dismantling a Soviet-era monument that commemorates the Red Army's victory over Nazi Germany, coming a week after Estonia removed a similar landmark.

Police erected a yellow fence to cordon off the area near the monument, which stands like a high-rise in downtown Riga's Victory Park.

It has an 80-meter (260-foot) concrete spire with a Soviet star on top, with two groups of statues beside the edge of a pond.

The monument, built in 1985 while Latvia was still part of the Soviet Union, was being felled using machinery on Tuesday.