Lithuania topples last Soviet monuments | Europe | News and current affairs from around the continent | DW

Statues of Lenin and other communists were removed shortly after independence in 1991. But since the start of the war in Ukraine this year, other sculptures have also disappeared — and reappeared next to goats and birds.

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