The Deputy Speaker of the Seimas Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė and the Deputy Chairperson of the Freedom Struggle and State Historical Remembrance Commission Paulė Kuzmickienė appealed to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice regarding the information that appeared in the public space that in Russia, in the city of Tomsk, the entire memorial complex dedicated to the memory of the victims of Stalin’s repressions, including the “Mourning Stone” built by Lithuania, was dismantled and removed this month.
“Russia’s consistent actions are more than a matter of heritage protection. We see this as part of a conscious policy aimed at rehabilitating the crimes of Stalinism and basing imperialist goals on a distorted history. Stalinism killed tens of millions of people, destroyed their lives and sought to deny the existence of independent states,” said R. Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė in a statement released on Friday.
