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Latvia picture - The demand to demolish the monument is not news. A few years back, the same uber-nationalists unsuccessfully demanded the government demolish the monument for “Soviet troops, who liberated Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascists,” which is its official name. Now though they have a reason: Estonia’s doing it.
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The demand to demolish the monument is not news. A few years back, the same uber-nationalists unsuccessfully demanded the government demolish the monument for “Soviet troops, who liberated Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascists,” which is its official name. Now though they have a reason: Estonia’s doing it.
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