Lithuanian Seimas deputies began to discuss the bill on the destruction of public facilities, "Propagating communism", According to the Lithuanian edition Delfi
The bill should establish a procedure for, according to which will remove or replace public facilities in Lithuania, the name or the contents of which "advocate communism or any other totalitarian ideology or system".
In an accompanying document stresses, that public opinion polls show, that nostalgia for Soviet times is associated with the maintenance of a favorable geopolitical orientation to the Kremlin and the disappointment with democracy in Lithuania. That part of the community, disappointed that democracy in Lithuania, He commends the Soviet times and considers it his most important source of information the Russian TV channels, inclined to approve the policy of the Kremlin. therefore, bearing in mind the geopolitical situation change, it is advisable to adopt a ban on the use of public facilities title and content, associated with communism or any other totalitarian ideology.
The bill highlights, that "the propaganda of communism" is "perpetuating any form of organizations, events and dates, related to the Soviet occupation 1940-1941 and 1944-1990 years and the Nazi occupation 1941-1944 s ".
According to the authors of the bill, Lithuania remained monuments, commemorative plaques, street names, education institutions, whose name is connected with communism and other totalitarian ideologies.
Such objects are reminiscent of the time of the Soviet occupation and often nostalgic for Soviet times - the article says.
