In eastern Europe, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rekindled a campaign to purge any remaining tributes to Soviet “heroes”. Farther west, attitudes to the past are evolving at a slower pace
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskare people it now no longer wants to celebrate. Dictators, colonisers and other previously exalted villains are being shunted off their pedestals. In eastern Europe, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has rekindled a campaign to purge any remaining tributes to Soviet “heroes”. Farther west, attitudes to the past are evolving at a slower pace.
and now among Ukraine’s most vocal supporters within the European one, are at the forefront. In August authorities in Latvia theatrically toppled an 80-metre monument celebrating the Red Army, to cheering crowds. A week earlier Estonia had carted off a Soviet-34 tank from its pedestal in the town of Narva to a museum. Raseiniai, a city in Lithuania, covered up a 70-year-old monument to Red Army soldiers in the spring—before removing it a few weeks later.
Germany stands as an outlier. It has over 1,000 Soviet monuments, largely in the formerly communist east. Yet there is no discernible call to do anything about them. That is not to do with the supposed complaisance of politicians in Berlin towards Russia. Rather, broader forces of history and identity are in play. The routing of the Nazis in 1945, and thus Germany’s rehabilitation after the war, start with the Red Army.
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