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The memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), which was reinstalled in Vilnius on Thursday night at the initiative of nongovernmental organizations, will damage Lithuania's image, says, Fainy Kukliansky, leader of the Jewi...
Supporters of Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), on Thursday night reinstalled the memorial plaque removed from the facade of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in central Vilnius in July.
Several hundred people rallied in Vilnius on Wednesday to protest against the city administration's decisions to remove commemorations to two officials who were allegedly involved in the Holocaust during World War Two.
Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis says he had no intention to offend the Jewish Community of Lithuania with his words and only wanted to remind the people inciting anti-Semitic moods about the roots of the Catholic religion.
There cannot be several different policies on sensitive historic issues in Lithuania, and the assessment of historic figures should be depoliticized, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.
