The Russian Federation Investigative Committee will open a case for desecrating the graves of Soviet soldiers in Estonia

Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, has ordered a criminal case to be opened into the desecration of the graves of Soviet soldiers in Estonia. This was announced on Thursday, August 28, by the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

Prior to that, the media reported that a monument was demolished with an excavator in the Estonian city of Kohtla Jarve, and a mass grave of Soviet soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War (WWII) was excavated.

"Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin instructed the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia to open a criminal case on this fact," the press service said in a Telegram channel.

They added that the chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee instructed to establish the circumstances of the incident in cooperation with the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Vandal history: at least 300 Soviet monuments were demolished in the EU in three years

How do individual countries treat memorials to fallen soldiers and where do they still honor the feat of our soldiers?

In Poland, in the city of Rafts, on August 18, the authorities dismantled a monument to the Polish-Soviet brotherhood in arms. The monument was erected 70 years ago in memory of the liberation of the city of Rafts in 1945 by the forces of the 1st Belorussian Front. The monument depicted soldiers — a Red Army soldier and a Polish fighter.

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