March 1, 2016, saw the department of Lithuania’s Cultural Heritage Assessment Council propose to strip the Soviet-era statues removed from Vilnius’ Green Bridge of their legal protection.
"The council voted unanimously for stripping the Green Bridge and its statues of their legal protection," Ruta Evelina Sutinyte, spokeswoman for the department, told BNS Lithuania.
The council also recommended that the statues, removed last summer, to be kept at a museum.
The final decision on stripping the statues of their lega...
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