2014.07.17 02:01
Opinion: Why are our neighbours poaching our history?
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![Monument for Grand Duke Algirdas in Vitebsk, Belarus. Photo by tut.by](https://images.delfi.lt/media-api-image-cropper/v1/57e72100-7a54-11ed-bbfd-e17f1d900260.jpg?noup&w=1200&h=711&fx=0.5&fy=0.25)
Monument for Grand Duke Algirdas in Vitebsk, Belarus. Photo by tut.by
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It is a country’s business what monument, where and how it will be built or demolished. For instance, the Poles have built a statue of urinating Lenin, the Lithuanians seem not to be able to wipe out the symbols of the Soviet reality overlooking the capital from the Green Bridge (should we hold a referendum?), and the Russians may return the Stalingrad name to Volgograd or call it Putingrad – of course, with many busts of the “leader of nations” or the current militant president...