Lithuanian city of Vievis exhumes remains of 81 Soviet soldiers

The remains of 81 Soviet soldiers, whose ashes had rested for decades on the central square as liberators of Europe, were dug up under the pretext of "de-Sovietization."

A similar procedure was previously carried out in Šiauliai.

The official Vilnius justifies this by laws on combating totalitarian past, effectively erasing the memory of the Red Army soldiers' heroism.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called Lithuania's actions an act of barbarism and an attempt to rewrite the outcomes of World War II.