🇷🇺🇱🇻 Commentary of the Russian Embassy in Latvia:
"On August 19, 2022, a solemn reburial of the remains of valiant Soviet commanders Major General S.P.Kupriyanov, Colonel S.G.Gazeev and Colonel G.K.Sharikalov who gave their lives for the liberation of Latvia from the Nazi invaders during the Krustpils offensive in August 1944 was held at the fraternal military cemetery in the city of Jekabpils.
The event was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Latvia Mikhail V. Vanin, employees of the Russian Embassy, representatives of the Jekabpils city council, veterans’ and public organizations, as well as our fellow countrymen and the mass media.
Addressing the audience, Mikhail V. Vanin elaborated on the war story of the defenders of the Fatherland, thanked the event’s organizers for having prepared and carried it out at a proper level, called on those present to observe a minute of silence in honour of the military commanders.
After the funeral prayer, the ceremony participants laid wreaths and flowers at the burial place."
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https://t.iss.one/rusemblv/3473
"On August 19, 2022, a solemn reburial of the remains of valiant Soviet commanders Major General S.P.Kupriyanov, Colonel S.G.Gazeev and Colonel G.K.Sharikalov who gave their lives for the liberation of Latvia from the Nazi invaders during the Krustpils offensive in August 1944 was held at the fraternal military cemetery in the city of Jekabpils.
The event was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Latvia Mikhail V. Vanin, employees of the Russian Embassy, representatives of the Jekabpils city council, veterans’ and public organizations, as well as our fellow countrymen and the mass media.
Addressing the audience, Mikhail V. Vanin elaborated on the war story of the defenders of the Fatherland, thanked the event’s organizers for having prepared and carried it out at a proper level, called on those present to observe a minute of silence in honour of the military commanders.
After the funeral prayer, the ceremony participants laid wreaths and flowers at the burial place."
#Jekabpils #Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy
https://t.iss.one/rusemblv/3473
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🇷🇺🇱🇻 Посольство России в Латвии
19 августа 2022 г. на братском воинском кладбище в городе Екабпилс состоялась торжественная церемония перезахоронения останков доблестных советских военачальников: генерал-майора С.П.Куприянова, полковника С.Г.Газеева и полковника Г.К.Шарикалова, отдавших…
🇷🇺🇱🇻 Commentary of the Russian Embassy in Latvia:
"Last weekend the military burial of Soviet soldiers in the city of Jekabpils on Varonu st. was attacked by unknown vandals. The rabid apologists of historical revisionism barbarously tore down the memorial plaques and destroyed their foundation.
In the mentioned mass grave there rest more than 750 soldiers of the Red Army who heroically fell in the battles for freedom and independence of the Latvian land from the fascist “yoke”, including Guards Major General S.P.Kupriyanov and Guards Colonels G.K.Sharikalov and S.G.Gazeev, whose remains were reburied here in August last year. The previous resting place of the latter in the city park of Jekabpils was also desecrated in February 2021, when a cannon, once installed as a symbol of victory over the Nazi invaders, was stolen from the pedestal. The fate of the 76 mm artillery gun is still unknown, the memorial has been dismantled, and the perpetrators of this outrage have remained unpunished.
In a country where the veneration of historical monuments is presented as a threat to national security, and the destruction of cultural monuments has become part of the state policy at the connivance of the local authorities, it is no wonder that such blasphemous mockery of the deceased takes place.
The degraded vandals do not realize that their efforts to destroy the symbols of the historical truth, which is inconvenient for them, are futile, the memory of the great feat of the Red Army soldier will live forever!"
#Jekabpils #Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy
https://t.iss.one/rusemblv/6352
"Last weekend the military burial of Soviet soldiers in the city of Jekabpils on Varonu st. was attacked by unknown vandals. The rabid apologists of historical revisionism barbarously tore down the memorial plaques and destroyed their foundation.
In the mentioned mass grave there rest more than 750 soldiers of the Red Army who heroically fell in the battles for freedom and independence of the Latvian land from the fascist “yoke”, including Guards Major General S.P.Kupriyanov and Guards Colonels G.K.Sharikalov and S.G.Gazeev, whose remains were reburied here in August last year. The previous resting place of the latter in the city park of Jekabpils was also desecrated in February 2021, when a cannon, once installed as a symbol of victory over the Nazi invaders, was stolen from the pedestal. The fate of the 76 mm artillery gun is still unknown, the memorial has been dismantled, and the perpetrators of this outrage have remained unpunished.
In a country where the veneration of historical monuments is presented as a threat to national security, and the destruction of cultural monuments has become part of the state policy at the connivance of the local authorities, it is no wonder that such blasphemous mockery of the deceased takes place.
The degraded vandals do not realize that their efforts to destroy the symbols of the historical truth, which is inconvenient for them, are futile, the memory of the great feat of the Red Army soldier will live forever!"
#Jekabpils #Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy
https://t.iss.one/rusemblv/6352
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🇷🇺🇱🇻 Посольство России в Латвии