Russia Furious After Latvia Destroys Soviet Victory Monument

The obelisk was constructed in 1985 to celebrate the Red Army’s recapture of Riga from Nazi Germany in 1944. However, many Latvians regard it as the beginning of the Soviet Union’s half-century totalitarian rule.

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