If you took the hundreds of Soviet era monuments salted all over the former USSR as a guide to your knowledge of history, then you would be almost certain to come away believing a Russian version of World War II history that is at best skewed and in most cases a demonstrable lie. The Soviet Union under Stalin was not liberating the Baltics, Poland and Ukraine, it was in fact throwing out one army of occupation troops and imposing its own occupation regime, often as bad – and sometimes worse. Today in some cases – particularly Ukraine and Poland – Russia’s false history is being ripped put and destroyed. However, one city in Lithuania has discovered an easier and perhaps just as effective solution [as illustrated by the accompanying photo from Birzai, Lithuania].
Brian Whitmore describes the alternative in a Daily Vertical podcast at the link at the link below: https://www.rferl.org/a/daily-vertical ... n-lithuania/28810633.html
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