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“We’ll see what the impact might be. There’s a sure problem right here as a result of it was completed by one separate group. If every group hangs its personal commemorative plaques, then we are able to get a variety of totally different ones (plaques – ELTA)”, V. Landsbergis informed journalists on Saturday in Independence Sq..
ELTA reminds that on Friday, on the eve of the June Rebellion of 1941, a memorial plaque devoted to the controversial colonel Ok. Škirpa was held on the Vilnius District Court docket constructing within the capital, on the initiative of the Nationwide Unification.
As Vytautas Sinica, who represents this occasion, stated to Elta, this motion was carried out as an motion of civil disobedience and was not coordinated with the town municipality.
Interviewed by Elta, the chairman of the Historic Reminiscence Fee of the Vilnius Metropolis Municipality, a member of the municipal council, Kamilė Šeraitė-Gogelienė, claimed that the commemorative plaque devoted to Ok. Škirpa, hung with out permission, might be eliminated.
In keeping with the politician, the Fee of Historic Reminiscence has utilized to the Genocide and Resistance Analysis Heart (LGGRTC) concerning the analysis of Ok. Škirpa’s persona, however they haven’t but acquired the outcomes.
“This board is topic to a regulation that prohibits the promotion of totalitarian regimes in public areas. Because of the ambiguous evaluation of Ok. Škirpa’s persona, we turned to the fee that evaluates such objects. After we would have acquired their conclusion, then we’d have thought of the problem of hanging that board”, Ok. Šeraitė-Gogelienė asserted to Eltai on Friday.
The beforehand offered conclusions of the LGGRTC concerning Ok. Škirpa assess his essential contribution in opposing the Soviet occupation regime, however emphasize that in 1940-1941, his actions “additionally contained manifestations of anti-Semitism”.
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