The Lithuanian Center for Research on Genocide and Resistance, as well as representatives of the municipal authorities, will be responsible for identifying items as propaganda.
Lithuania’s Seimas on Tuesday voted for the so-called de-Sovietization law. Propaganda of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes will be banned in the country, symbols of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Lithuania will not be placed on the streets. On Tuesday, December 13, LRT reported.
The law, on which 103 members of the Seimas voted, will be signed by the President of Lithuania in the near future.
“The law creates a legal basis for the removal of symbols of totalitarianism and authoritarianism from public places, such as monuments, memorial objects, names of streets, squares and other public thing,” the statement said.
Monuments and memorial objects reminiscent of the USSR or Nazi Germany will be removed from public places in Lithuania. In addition, the law provides for the renaming of streets, squares and other objects.
Placing on public sites symbols of military aggression, as well as symbols related to the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940-1941 and 1944-1990 and the Nazi occupation in 1939-1944 will be prosecuted by law.
The exception is museums, archives, libraries and other places designed to inform citizens about historical events, including the activities of totalitarian and authoritarian governments.
The Lithuanian Center for Genocide and Resistance Studies or municipal authorities will identify public facilities as promoting totalitarian or authoritarian regimes and their ideologies. A special interdepartmental commission has to submit its assessment in advance.
It will be recalled that Vilnius authorities have finished dismantling the country’s largest memorial to Soviet soldiers, located in the Antakal cemetery.
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