Ogre Municipal Council has decided to dismantle five memorial stones dedicated to Soviet occupation regime within its territory, according to information from the council’s website.
According to jauns.lv, it is planned to liquidate the memorial located in Ikšķile, Pārbrauktuves Street 4, near Ikšķile railway station. This memorial is dedicated to People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR diplomatic courier Theodor Nette.
It is also planned to dismantle the memorial stone located in Tome Parish near Tome Elementary School’s sports field. This memorial is dedicated to the Soviet Army, specifically Baikal reconnaissance group, which was active in the area in 1944.
There are also plans to dismantle the memorial stone located in Ogre County’s Madliena Parish. On this memorial stone are the words «On 26 September 1944 the Soviet Army liberated Madliena from the German fascist invaders.» No troops are buried in the area where the memorial stone is located.
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The list of monuments to be dismantled in the municipality includes the memorial dedicated to the victims of the terror of the totalitarian regime in Madliena Parish, in the middle of the field not far from Madliena old school. Initially the memorial stone featured a plaque with the words «To the victims of fascism» under the figure of a person in pain. No information about any burials within the memorial’s immediate vicinity.
Ogre Municipal Council also plans to dismantle the monument dedicated to the Soviet Army in Laubere Parish. This monument is located on the territory of Laubere School. The monument was erected in 1970 and dedicated to the soldiers of the Soviet Army that took Lauberi on 9 October 1944. It is not a place of burial of troops, the council notes.
Soviet memorial stones to be liquidated in Ogre
