Massive Obelisk at Soviet WWII memorial is toppled with a splash

[@denu1879]

So long Soviet Union, you won't be missed.

[@Anna87147]

The memorial was for the soldiers who liberated Europe from Nazism. Brainwashed and pathetic comments.

[@Jimmythefish577]

Soviet Union hasn’t existed for over 20 years….

[@mis4nthr0p3]

@@Jimmythefish577 But its monuments do

[@oxyman10]

I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner.

[@conoroshea2377]

Look, show some respect

[@yosh8758]

Fun fact: the obelisk was knocked down by only one person, who operated both of the bulldozers at different times

[@joshmarteen6904]

Not many needed to knock the whole bloody RuZZia down!

[@mis4nthr0p3]

I hope he puts that on his resumé

[@mkodyglobalsouthsoldier]

History gone What it stood for What it meant Gone forever......

[@CaptainAhorn]

@@mkodyglobalsouthsoldier Yes, it stood for a murderous and barbaric empire which has long passed its high-water mark and is now about to recede into history permanently. May the rest of the reminders it left across Europe meet the same fate.

[@mrolsen6987]

Excavators, No bulldozers in this video..

[@rafalkrawczyk940]

Bravo Latvians! Greetings from Poland!

[@HELESPONTify]

Idiot, this monument Soviet people, not Rusian!

[@chucklesthered2338]

Standing ovation!

[@RHINOTEJAS]

Russian Federation: Somebody accidentally leaned on it .

[@raptordan166]

The cigarette strikes again.

[@BaliAgha]

Special Relocation Operation

[@RHINOTEJAS]

@@BaliAgha 🤣

[@erniebuchinski3614]

Or maybe some tourist farted on it . . . 🤣

[@jefferyleo76]

The Soviet monument held, it was the earth that folded over.

[@bigtone1348]

We were in Riga this week. We were advised to keep away from that area, as they were expecting a demonstration by Russian residents. I couldn't believe it when we got home last night and saw this on the TV.

[@grawakendream8980]

was there a demonstration

[@bigtone1348]

@@grawakendream8980 Not that we were aware of at the time. Although there were a lot of Policija in the tourist areas that morning, as they were ringing the church bells in support of Ukraine.

[@mis4nthr0p3]

@@bigtone1348 Then all is good

[@bigtone1348]

@@mis4nthr0p3 We travelled through Finland, Estonia and Latvia. You get a sense of unease among the people. All three countries have borders with Russia'.

[@tomaskatinas1796]

@@bigtone1348 also a history of ruzzians invading and killing the people of Finland and the Baltics.

[@BawlzOfuzz]

I'm against the toppling of any monument for any reason. The future generations will be worse off without the examples of the mistakes from the past.

[@henryseidel5469]

You are right. Wise people discuss history and draw conclusions. Imbeciles tear down memorials and frolic like madmen.

[@WhatsWrongWithTheStreet]

I woould like to see a memorial erected on that site to all those killed or tortured during the Soviet occupation.

[@ПахаЗосимов]

А такие были?

[@WhatsWrongWithTheStreet]

@@ПахаЗосимов 🤔Uhhhhh?

[@TheRealMrSkippy]

When in Riga, go to the Corner House (KGB museum), there you can see what the Ruzzian secret service did…

[@WhatsWrongWithTheStreet]

@@TheRealMrSkippy I would love to visit Riga. If I'm fortunate to get there, I will visit the Corner House. Thanks for the tip.

[@resireg]

Agreed . Everyone who fought against USSR is a hero in my opinion

[@hugoausbayern1234]

dont talk or dont discuss... just do it.. Remove all the Soviet memorial BS from each and every country!!!

[@paraguard60]

Yes! And ban the Russian language...........

[@matthiasburger2315]

Very true. There is work to be done in Berlin...

[@paraguard60]

@B8 Most Ukrainians speak RuSSian, they had to learn RuSSian through the occupation of their country!! Now they can get rid of this language......................

[@paraguard60]

@B8 Belgium and Switzerland haven´t recently marched into a sovereign country bombing, murdering and raping civilians, and stealing everything that they worked hard for! It´s a proven fact that Orc´s are "Lower entites" And the "Putin plague" must be eradicated! RuSSians who support crazy Putin are just as guilty...................

[@imbored394]

I hate people who are knocking down history.

[@officialdropnation]

next we should do stalins birth house in Georgia

[@aka99]

Better as a museum against Stalin, Stalinism and the bloodthirsty cccp in general

[@mis4nthr0p3]

Hitler's in Bavaria too.

[@officialdropnation]

@@mis4nthr0p3 yea sure why not 😂

[@d.f.1658]

@@mis4nthr0p3 Austria

[@jasoneldridge4738]

I always thought the grave of Karl Marx in a London should of been removed ,after all he was the father of the evil idea of communism and brought about the deaths of millions of people!

[@Jimmy-B-]

The murdering dictator is too pompous to realise how significant this is

[@tomm487]

@@muckle8 Nope. Your god, murderer and thief, Pooty the puta.

[@Jimmy-B-]

Zelensky.. you alright bud? No im talking about the murdering dictator that has sent 40-80,000 men to their deaths for nothing. Who is ravaging a country for no reason. Try work that out, his name rhymes with poopin. That is what he is a big 💩

[@easymoney8535]

@@muckle8 Weak childish deflection.

[@unworthy42]

@@muckle8 Russian propaganda troll...GFY. : )

[@BlutoandCo]

@@muckle8 if your getting paid by the word, your wage isnt going far! Vatnik 🤡

[@Bathtubcrocodile]

This is how communism and oppression should be treated. Tear it down.

[@ruslannabioullin3664]

Tear down the Europa bldg. in Brussels as well.

[@justlooking7724]

Well done Latvia 🇱🇻

[@User-cv2xn]

Wtf? its memorial for fallen soldiers in ww2? it has nothing to do with UA, btw a lot of fallen soviet soldiers were from UA, thats called history

[@VlD3adly]

@@User-cv2xn don't be stupid. Russia will use anything as an excuse to lie and hurl more b.s at the world. Put your phone down and walk away, thanks

[@cactuslietuva]

@@User-cv2xn Do you think these idiots even know anything about history? They will support everything that is shown on western propaganda.

[@theempirewasright7673]

@@User-cv2xn ig but for them it represents fhe foreign invaders who took control of their lands

[@Belphegor83]

Stop crying !!!

[@gamedayswede]

Well done Latvia, this monument is monument of opression and nothing else. Hope you can build a park and memories of your independence day instead on the sight.

[@fabb5]

they denazified this country......but karma never fails..

[@tz3841]

​@@fabb5 Actually the Red army likely inflicted much more misery and suffering in Latvia than they did good. And in case of Western Europe they arrived to countries already largely liberated by local partisans only to take credit for their hard work while pillaging, looting and raping. They deserve no monuments. Especially since whatever good they did they undone no only with their aforementioned atrocities but also mistreatment of these countries in the following decades.

[@stormtruppen4039]

@@fabb5 they need to denazify ruZZia now. Remember most of the troops in the red army were Ukrainian

[@super-troll]

Глупо. Скоро они этот памятник будут восстанавливать под дулом танка Т-90 и петь гимн России.

[@asl7235]

@@super-troll haha Russia 2nd best army in Ukraine.

[@skeemoskeemo6674]

Honestly I’m American and that’s just wrong those men died for that country and fought for what they believed in and it deserves to be respected

[@totallynotyniswear39]

Evidently they believed in genocide because that's what they did in "that" country.

[@kartofff]

It's like if Canada invaded the USA. Then Mexico arrives and beats Canada back, then takes charge of your whole country and oppresses you for two generations. They deport dozens of thousands of people to Mexican deserts, drench any idea of a free local government for the USA, and populate a third of the ex-USA with Mexicans. Americans live under a reign of silent terror, and don't make too much noise, lest their own kids report them. And the Mexicans build a giant memorial to mexican heroism, just to make sure everybody knows who's boss. Fourty years later, the Mexican regime collapses, the USA become free again, and when the Americans topple the Mexican memorial, somebody in Europe tell them it's just wrong, that Mexicans died for that country.

[@henryseidel5469]

@@totallynotyniswear39 Genocide was believed in when Hiroshima and Nagasaky were nuked. This monument was erected by Roosevelt's and Churchill's best ally. Ignoring history is the worst tghing one could think of. Idiotic.

[@barabbasrosebud9282]

Beautiful and highly symbolic! It's just a shame that Putin wasn't there to see it up close, very up close, and personally.

[@Laakona]

Even better if Putin was on top of it and rode it into the pond!

[@super-troll]

Что красиво? Снести памятник солдатам, которые освободили эту землю от фашизма это идиотизм.

[@ivanbasson982]

Unfortunately and regrettably I must disagree....

[@rico-228]

Lol its not for putin

[@mis4nthr0p3]

@@super-troll Replaced one form of fascism with another.

[@tanektan9113]

Well done Ĺatvia !! For the 'Special Monument Demolition Operation'.

[@super-troll]

Stupidly. To destroy the monument to the soldiers who liberated this land from fascism at the cost of their lives. Grateful descendants. If it weren't for the Russian soldiers, the fascists would have cooked a great piece of soap from the grandmother of this excavator. Soon they will restore this monument at the muzzle of a T-90 tank and sing the anthem of Russia.

[@Barro1]

@@super-troll *who liberated this land and then occupied it themselves. And are all ruscists as stupid as you - to threaten a NATO country with an invasion?.. 5th article you know.

[@johnrefe]

@@super-troll learn history you occupant trash

[@fanfeck2844]

@@super-troll spoken like a true fascist

[@op8726]

@@super-troll Putin’s trolls crying? Boo hoo get out of Ukraine with ur garbage army

[@anoshsmith9500]

still not nice to destroy a war memorial, it's not about the government it's about each person who gave their lives for a just cause.

[@freethinker--]

A terrorist state doesn't deserve monuments.

[@freethinker--]

@Giannis G. Bombing civilians, trains, schools, hospitals, shopping center, concert hall, apartment blocks... The world can see what the Kremlin is doing.

[@chriszenko3598]

They should have removed that garbage along time ago

[@i_cri_evertim]

Now, they will replace it with a statue of Adolf Hitler lol

[@donjosegomburza835]

While touring Lituania, I saw the inside of Soviet kgb headquarters. This place is horrible. The place where the kgb killed all Soviet opposition.

[@aka99]

And that was just Lativa what you saw. There were thousands of such installations in the ussr and across ussr occupied states

[@parts1982]

don't you want to go to prison Abu Ghraib for an excursion?

[@Special_Agent_NSB]

A lot of ghosts in that place, I’m sure. Bad memories. Dark times. Let’s hope those days are gone for good.

[@Special_Agent_NSB]

@@parts1982 This is Latvia genius. Why are Putin bots all so stupid?

[@stevenortiz9008]

@@jheeshin621 Guantanamo

[@Bergmann.Alaska]

This needs to happen Europe wide...

[@Bergmann.Alaska]

@@Joeyknows924 I long to see the one in Berlin bulldozed into the dust bin of history..

[@MrSesebo]

sadly this won't happen in socialist loving berlin

[@Bergmann.Alaska]

@@MrSesebo I watched something the other night where it was being discussed..

[@usul573]

Baltics were removing Soviet monuments too.

[@borjavalero8511]

Why? Every country can decide what to do with this stuff.

[@vanlyn7261]

we in Ukraine also tear down monuments to the Soviet Union and soldiers, because we know that there is no difference between fascist Germany, the USSR, and now Russia. the Russian military was even more cruel to the population in those days than the Germans, and now nothing has changed

[@vladmir7426]

Who "we", who you ,lol kid... Clown, tell this to all those Ukrainians who fought against the German army that it turns out to be all the same .. Give the facts that the USSR did the same as Germany, although you are so stupid that I don’t know if you can read, because you wanted to be a slave of the Aryans ... Oh,so did you come from a family of collaborators?Or bot?

[@razorrabbit2789]

Down the Russian monuments. Russians define themselves all about military force. They are so proud to have submitted many people in their vast country. And the worst thing is: they can't get enough. A real nightmare of a neighbour for all the smaller countries around. Despite NATO I am happy not to live in direct neighbourhood to Russia. Russia.

[@OM-ike]

Yeah. After 50 years of "liberation" propaganda, it's time to tell the story unfiltered

[@terrijohnson6733]

"Вы в Украине" естественно не видите разницы между нацистской Германией и СССР, т.к.у руля вашего стоят люди, поддерживающие нацистские формирования. Естественно, ты, глупец, с промытыми мозгами, ставишь пособников нацистов во времена ВОВ в один ряд с твоими соотечественниками, которые ценой своей жизни спасли Украину от нацистских зверств. Всю вашу страну страну восстановили после войны силами советских людей, все ваши заводы, фабрики, школы, институты, больницы и остальная иефраструктура строилась народом СССР. Но в вашей голове каша, вы же не видите разницы, что к режим СССР считал все народы союза равноправными, а режим нацистов считал остальные народы рабами и прислугой. Что же в вашей глупой голове происходит, почему вы не читаете книги нормальные??

[@rlanguillat]

@@terrijohnson6733 what a fairytaile view upon History you have... 😂

[@janis31]

Finally we did this. If someone is somehow offended by this - suitcase, station, Russia.

[@love-vy1ry]

Same thinking......

[@brianwillson9567]

Exactly.

[@RealNellik]

nono, bullet, gun, head.

[@sisenor4091]

I ❤️ this comment.

[@antonjohndell1519]

Very well expressed!

[@stephenbrand5661]

Baltic pride!! Don't let those Russian settlers dictate YOUR historical memory!!

[@russianbear9311]

In Latvia, there should be only monuments in honor of SS division soldiers.

[@Огоньплей]

And what exactly is its own story? This is a monument in honor of the victory over fascism, and not in honor of the fact that the USSR occupied the Baltic. This is stupid to put it mildly

[@hdufort]

@@russianbear9311 Really? Not bowing to Russian imperialism means being a fascist pig? You're a real troll dude.

[@fanfeck2844]

@@russianbear9311 RuSSia

[@fanfeck2844]

@@Огоньплей they can put up a nice one without that dumb communist star, that butchered millions

[@KrunoBaraba]

If that act makes you feel better , please talk to your psychologist . Pure barbarism .

[@Squid969]

For me as a Latvian this was very special day!

[@casparwintermans9492]

I am ever so glad that your country was able to join NATO.

[@Squid969]

@@casparwintermans9492 Nato saved Baltic states!

[@ComradeM-r9p]

Для тебя как для латыша если так дальше пойдёт каждый день может стать особенным. А пока будь скромнее что-ли. Ты сам в жизни ни воевал ни одного памятника не построил и ничего в жизни не прохавал по-настоящему

[@Squid969]

@@ComradeM-r9p and here as you can see Russian is threatening me. When russia occupied Latvia they destroyed many monuments and now threatening me because of this one.

[@grillhero7247]

@@ComradeM-r9p Yob tebya sykha. Slava Ykraina

[@alanaldpal950]

They should send an invoice for the demolition cost to Putin.

[@ПахаЗосимов]

А при чём тут Путин?

[@FVBmovies]

RuSSia even offered to buy the damn thing and transport it to RuSSia. We said nah. :)

[@katealeksen4168]

We will pay the price when nazism is out of hand.

[@ich_vergebe_euch_777]

This monument was simply not compatible with freedom , human rights and democracy. Well done , Latvia 👍👍👍👍

[@ADZ01982]

You know thousands of Latvians fought on both sides in WW2?

[@mis4nthr0p3]

@@ADZ01982 But only the Soviets imposed communism on Latvia.

[@JohnHenryEden2277]

@@ADZ01982 Most of them fought against their will.

[@dirtydish6642]

What an honor to be the excavator operator to knock that rock over.

[@springbloom5940]

Yes, we should all be so lucky to be a Fireman.

[@super-troll]

Stupidly. To destroy the monument to the soldiers who liberated this land from fascism at the cost of their lives. Grateful descendants. If it weren't for the Russian soldiers, the fascists would have cooked a great piece of soap from the grandmother of this excavator. Soon they will restore this monument at the muzzle of a T-90 tank and sing the anthem of Russia.

[@ruskiessuck3337]

@@super-troll must suck to be a3rd world country hated by the World troll huh?

[@Relkond]

@@super-troll I’m not sure it’s stupid. At the very least cathartic, perhaps a touch of practical, seeing as Russia would destroy it themselves if given the chance. Russia doesn’t car who put it up, just that it’s in Ukrainian land, therefore it must be destroyed.

[@mic7504]

@@Relkond Riga is the capital of Latvia.

[@DarkClow220]

At last. The end of soviet occupation symbol.

[@CBuxton-EX.HKt.D]

we must never try and re wright history

[@hibahprice6887]

@@CBuxton-EX.HKt.D How to worship dictators

[@rachelkateve1397]

@@hibahprice6887 Exactly🤨

[@vvtv2318]

@@CBuxton-EX.HKt.D A nation denied its past no longer existing. Regret from Vietnam.

[@ThePantygun]

Zion is falling.

[@boringstomp2233]

I am anti-communist, I'm not very much against anything but communism is one of those things that I am confident in saying that I am against. With that being said, the Soviets lost the most people out of any nation in WW2 . We can argue about how which side was this or that or if the world after was for the better or worse. But that's irrelevant, the world we live in was made possible by the millions of Soviets who gave their all for their motherland. That sacrifice should not be forgotten nor trivialized because "Russia bad". Their monuments shouldn't be torn down. I am grateful to those men even if y'all aren't.

[@chrismoon7518]

Putin: thats what the free world thinks of your vile efforts to recreate the Soviet Union.......

[@yapasphotozzz5456]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@yuwaretphasuk6701]

The symbol of evil….Glad to see it fall down.

[@mis4nthr0p3]

@Red Stripe Says the RuZZian oppressor state of non-RuZZian Federated Republics. 🖕👉🇷🇺

[@aka99]

Mark Reynolds, why do you care?

[@ThaDonJsuan]

@Red Stripe but why would we topple our own statues? Hehehe ;)

[@supergaugesicht9981]

Fun fact, this Obelisk was torn down by only one man. He tried to conduct a special operation and told everyone he would do it in three days. Then it escalated quickly and became a long, long project...

[@danielschannel701]

With the help of six bulldozers that broke down and were left sitting.

[@arslanikhlasov3450]

he never told about three days, you are just a zombie

[@supergaugesicht9981]

@@danielschannel701 I heard his hired "contractors" were some unsuspecting school kids, convicts and some people who didn't receive payment. Makes one wonder...

[@СергейСтепанов-ч8о]

Ha ha he didn't say that. The lying Western media spoke

[@supergaugesicht9981]

@@СергейСтепанов-ч8о Who didn't say what?

[@darkgamer-wk6qd]

Reminded me on how Saurons tower felt in Lord of the rings

[@thomaslunde5014]

@Dawn Razor Keep telling yourself that Sergei.

[@stormtruppen4039]

@Dawn Razor sergei we all know RuZZia is the latest home of Fascism

[@springbloom5940]

Can you get anymore brainwashed?

[@thomaslunde5014]

@Dawn Razor My bad, i misspelled your name. SSergei, take a hike.

[@mis4nthr0p3]

@Dawn Razor Did you say something, orc?

[@keegan773]

There can be no better feeling than throwing off the shackles of a vicious oppressor.

[@cuauhtemoc8350]

What shackles? The country has been independent for thirty years. This was totally unnecessary and counterproductive.

[@super-troll]

Stupidly. To destroy the monument to the soldiers who liberated this land from fascism at the cost of their lives. Grateful descendants. If it weren't for the Russian soldiers, the fascists would have cooked a great piece of soap from the grandmother of this excavator. Soon they will restore this monument at the muzzle of a T-90 tank and sing the anthem of Russia.

[@queezyscorner6548]

@@super-troll Thanks for proving them completely right. "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain". Slava Ukraine.

[@super-troll]

@@queezyscorner6548 Слава Украине в составе России.

[@op8726]

@@cuauhtemoc8350 haha Putins trolls crying

[@tedmccarron]

This was awesome! Long overdue!! 👏👏👏👏

[@austindarrenor]

The disdain the Latvians feel for Moscow and the Soviets must really be something.

[@tedmccarron]

@@austindarrenor you're right! And understandably so!

[@austindarrenor]

@@tedmccarron Thanks. I'm so used to getting contradictions to comments that I make this is a nice change. 🥳

[@austindarrenor]

@@tedmccarron Actually what I'd like to see is a memorial to the 150K Soviet soldiers that were shot and killed during WW II by their fellow Soviets (anti-retreat squads).

[@dafyddthomas7299]

Excellent job Latvi; time for the ordinary Russians to topple Pu7 tibn.

[@Дмитрийоколов-ч8щ]

Don't worry, Russians won't forget or forgive anything!

[@unworthy42]

@@Дмитрийоколов-ч8щ Don't worry, nobody cares what Russians think these days. : )

[@Jimzyy]

@@Дмитрийоколов-ч8щ no one cares. russia is weak

[@mis4nthr0p3]

@@Дмитрийоколов-ч8щ They forgot how to win. 😂🤣🖕👉🇷🇺

[@love-vy1ry]

@@Дмитрийоколов-ч8щ Thinking?????? A ruski????? I don't see it on the worldmap anymore...

[@alexanderastafyev3615]

Spectacular!!! And with a big splash…. Good job brothers and sisters !!!

[@super-troll]

Глупо. Скоро они этот памятник будут восстанавливать под дулом танка Т-90 и петь гимн России.

[@mis4nthr0p3]

@@super-troll keep dreaming Putlerbot

[@BlutoandCo]

@@super-troll 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@captainmcawesome7908]

@@super-troll is there a way to book you for stand-up comedy? I wont pay in rubles though.

[@Втораяжизнь-ц2э]

@@super-troll Они просто настраивают росию и росиян против себя. Посмотрите как всеми силами пытаются изменить историю и удоляют из жизни простых людей памятники. Это всё не с проста. Такое ощущение будто они готовятся

[@1966sanya]

Well done Latvia. With love from Lithuania.

[@x.x.2644]

Latvia - expert in *special splash operations*

[@McGregor323]

But still, they win in WWII, history fact you can not erase

[@pule6913]

What disrespect, this is disgusting disrespecting the liberators of Latvia is a dumb decision.

[@qn5947]

Say no to totalitarianism and Communism. Look forward to freedom and free election, something that Putin and Xi don’t ever allow.

[@jeannotschumacher1024]

and trump

[@rexcowan9209]

This is appalling considering how many Russian soldiers died to defeat Germany. We wouldn't have succeeded without their efforts. War memorials should not be destroyed for political purposes.

[@pangeriamicronation2342]

The collapse of a century of progress… The disrespect to those who have died in the struggle against fascism, I cannot believe people can live with this.

[@Afgan8844]

Nice joke. Please compare the progress Latvia achieved from 1918 to 1940 and the "progress" from 1945 to 1990.

[@norbertblackrain2379]

This symbol of oppression stood far too long.

[@Sgt_Bill_T_Co]

And now it truly represents the Soviet era, it has collapsed.

[@AbdulRasyidPangrango-qr9dt]

Bruh it just memorial smybol for WW2, its not like the symbol is stalin or lenin

[@FVBmovies]

@@AbdulRasyidPangrango-qr9dt Really? What period in years was represented on a "memorial"? Before or after Stalin collaborated with Hitler?

[@AbdulRasyidPangrango-qr9dt]

@@FVBmovies duhh dumbo. it clearly visible on the title, soviet WW2 memorial. This monument is to honor those who fight in WW2

[@ThePantygun]

The inaugural video would make an interesting find.

[@ruhithudakara2802]

Glad to see it, well done 😍😍

[@super-troll]

Stupidly. To destroy the monument to the soldiers who liberated this land from fascism at the cost of their lives. Grateful descendants. If it weren't for the Russian soldiers, the fascists would have cooked a great piece of soap from the grandmother of this excavator. Soon they will restore this monument at the muzzle of a T-90 tank and sing the anthem of Russia.

[@ruhithudakara2802]

@@super-troll lots of words man 😆😆. people say lots of words and things when they're in pain or losing battles. anyway the T-90 you're talking about, is the turret still attached, or is it flown away to sing the anthem of Russia? 😂😂😂. usually they fly away the moment they see jawline god.😂😂

[@vvtv2318]

A nation denied its past no longer existing. Regret from Vietnam.

[@owenb8636]

@@super-troll imagine how horrible their treatment under the Russians must have been then. And how much of a threat they must consider them to be right now. But no Russians always see themselves as the victims all the time

[@georgeamesfort3408]

Yea ,replaced the German fascism woth the Russian soviet dictatorship, oppresion ,deportation, yay, ruzzian liberators

[@paulmiskell3988]

When you attempt to erase the past you will end up repeating it

[@DavidJ222]

Putin wept. 😥😢😭

[@mis4nthr0p3]

And the world laughs at him.

[@ultonian63]

He would have to be human for that to happen.

[@Arthur_Pint]

Now that’s what I call a special operation.👍

[@ПахаЗосимов]

Это называется - вандализм

[@andriypalamarchuk2731]

a successful special operation. Go, Latvia! 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻

[@fuser333]

Ridicoli la storia di un popolo non si cancella abbattendo un monumento.

[@ronyhussain1982]

God bless you all , keep growing all Ukriane will win Putin will loose

[@razal-ghul1105]

Wait, why did it take nearly 3 decades

[@mis4nthr0p3]

Trying to be diplomatic all that time. It turned out to be pointless.

[@tamaragolubeva8011]

A lot of Latvian people were against it. It show, how democratic work. Sad

[@Zildjian_DW]

It's just a shame Putin wasn't standing under it.

[@matthiasburger2315]

I came to the comments only to look for this one ;)

[@erichanson1740]

Agree 100% to that!!!!!

[@beamer.electronics]

Perhaps replaced by a monument to all countries it aligns with, and a blank space at the end for Russia when it will inevitably arrive - as a free and open democracy.

[@katealeksen4168]

Democracy? The Azov Batallion and the nationalist guerrillas supported by the CIA since the 50s are the worst enemy of democracy, not Russia. And I'm Western. Collective mental diarrhea is putting nazism back on top. I guess they think if they pull down their pants they will appease those psychos.

[@henryseidel5469]

As one of America's vassalls right in front of the Russian border.

[@beamer.electronics]

@@henryseidel5469 Nothing in the world is perfect, but some are more imperfect than others. Should Ukraine be totally Russian-occupied: "America's vassals" will be on its border.

[@henryseidel5469]

@@beamer.electronics When the Soviets cooperated with Castro a hundred miles from the US border it was called a 'world crisis' ! Remember.....?? Should Ukraine become a launching site of Americans on the back side of their world ? For freedom and democracy ?? What an out dated; hypocritical fairytale 1

[@rstcontext]

Monuments to the victors of fascism can only be destroyed by the fascists. Now they are in power in Riga. They destroyed not a monument to Putin, but a monument to Soviet soldiers who gave their lives for the fight against fascism.

[@Grindeddude]

Thats so beautiful !

[@russianbear9311]

Are you nazist?

[@super-troll]

Stupidly. To destroy the monument to the soldiers who liberated this land from fascism at the cost of their lives. Grateful descendants. If it weren't for the Russian soldiers, the fascists would have cooked a great piece of soap from the grandmother of this excavator. Soon they will restore this monument at the muzzle of a T-90 tank and sing the anthem of Russia.

[@gyorgyantal2985]

​@@super-troll az oroszok felszabadítottak? Csak bebörtönözték az összes népet maguk körül.

[@maxm8997]

@@russianbear9311 no, but Putin is.

[@stophate2023]

@@super-troll shut up 🤣🤣🤣🇺🇦🇺🇲🇺🇦🇺🇲🇺🇦

[@LindaStevensBZ]

Now build another memorial for the victims of Soviet deportation, murder and oppression.

[@drakehonest9116]

Hello how are you doing..?

[@davidlloyd2583]

What are they going to replace it with, a memorial to people who helped the Germans?

[@leoncoetzer]

well done for taking down a fascist symbol

[@katealeksen4168]

It was a monument celebrating the liberation of Latvia from fascism...

[@leoncoetzer]

@@katealeksen4168 russian fascists are not liberators they are invaders.

[@arthurlenko9598]

I am loving it. Slava Ukraine.

[@User-cv2xn]

Wtf? its memorial for fallen soldiers in ww2? it has nothing to do with UA, btw a lot of fallen soviet soldiers were from UA, thats called history

[@arthurlenko9598]

@@User-cv2xn Everything to do with the invasion and war in Ukraine, thats why they are taking it down now and not 30 yrs . ago when they should have done it.Yes it was for the soviet soldiers of the USSR the same soldiers that killed thousands of Latvians and occupied and enslaved their country for 70 yrs. SLAVA UKRAINE .

[@User-cv2xn]

​@@arthurlenko9598 Oh rly, so you think that litva in hands of third reich, would be better?

[@arthurlenko9598]

@@User-cv2xn Obviously a commie lover like you thinks that LATVIA would be better under the USSR and you think that the collapse of it was the greatest disaster in history. 😆😆

[@andriypalamarchuk2731]

@@User-cv2xn is a slave fighting to keep their chains and put chains on free people. Go, Free Latvia! 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻

[@fepeerreview3150]

The engineer in me always enjoys a good demolition video. The humanitarian in me is especially pleased with this one. I am so happy to see the elimination of these monuments to Soviet glory. The fact is, during WW2 the Soviet army perpetrated many heinous war crimes and never got prosecuted for them because they were primarily against our own enemies. It's time we acknowledge that.

[@christopherg2347]

They were deemed a lesser evil while at war. Which might have even been right. And too much trouble to fight thanks to nuclear weapons afterwards.

[@katarinagerecova9142]

FE Peer Review Too bad you were set free, you wouldn't be solving this problem today because you most likely wouldn't even exist.

[@МаксимИванович-ъ1щ]

Эх ребята, Союз смог контратаковать во второй мировой войне, Союз дошёл до Берлина попутно освобождая оккупированные территории, доблестная Америка, воюющая ради наживы, ни шагу бы не сделала, если бы Союз не контратаковал, Советские танки брали Берлин. А по итогу, дядюшка Сэм навязывает свой порядок на западе, и появляется чушь, о каких-то преступления, что советы, были круче нацистов. Я не являюсь фанатом Советов только потому что, Ленин хотел показать что СССР, это много национальная страна, и разбил Русских, на много разных народов, так появилось много разных наций, Белорусы, ваши любимые Украинцы, да что уж там, много национальная Прибалтика, существует только из за Советского союза. А теперь ВЫ сносите памятники Ленину и Союзу, это происходит, не от большого ума товарищи. Ну ничего кидайте санкции, отправляйте украинцам оружие, верьте всем перемогам.

[@Z3R0xf]

@@МаксимИванович-ъ1щ vania privet

[@andreataylor7135]

Spot on again. In WWII the soviets were renowned for their brutality against women and children. And today they are just the same in Ukraine. New block name, but same sexual deviants wearing RuSSian uniforms instead of Soviet uniformd. They are oxygen thieves and rapists.

[@stamfordmeetup]

Well done, get rid of the symbol of oppression.

[@ADZ01982]

Soviets liberated Lativa?

[@TonkistLT]

@@ADZ01982 soviets liberated Latvia the same way Germany "liberated" the Sudetenland

[@ochkonlon3169]

@@ADZ01982 The Soviet Union invaded it and occupied it in 1940.

[@oasis1282]

@@TonkistLT What a bad example

[@TonkistLT]

@@oasis1282 In what way?

[@doveofwar6824]

All the Tsars horses and all Tsars men, couldn’t put their ugly monument together again.

[@ThePantygun]

War mood. 👍

[@the2012man]

Thanks for helping us defeat Hitler at the cost of millions of your lives but now it's cancel Russia so screw remembering all those brave soldiers who helped free Europe

[@glaucetas141]

That's what happens when you're doing the exact same thing that your own motherland fought decades ago.

[@blitzkrieg0136]

@@glaucetas141 Very sad..... 2014-2019 Mainstream media including BBC, Radio free Europe, etc reporting the threat of Right-wings influence in government, military, and children study in Ukr

[@bigdada018]

Blessings, peace and luck from California to Ukraine 🙏✌🍀💛💙

[@NixUgriBugri]

About time 30 years too late !

[@alexsimpson79]

Latvian government is headless. Disgusting action!

[@dwaynedibbley6124]

Fun fact: Putin didnt see this as he was hiding under a very very long table

[@garymostert4811]

Great to see this.

[@K25_the_first]

i understand why they do it but also it is quite sad to see the memories of those 27 million people just getting destroyed

[@DacianRider]

GLORIOUS !

[@salad7776]

the Soviets wasted cement on such monsters instead of building apartments 🤪

[@royalanania3306]

The big question is why they did that many Russians lost their lives in WW2

[@utkarshtrivedi8870]

Congratulations my Latvian brothers and sisters you just toppled the "evil".

[@maximzhukov889]

Очень символично, что слово "зло" у вас в кавычках 🤣

[@2sik_UK]

But the Russians were allied in ww2, in my opinion this is a big disrespect to all the Russian service men that died to rid the world of the axis forces in ww2, that is if this statue was a ww2 memorial

[@benfriedman5492]

@NationalAmerican TeroristicOrganisationNATO Your rubles are in the mail Boris.

[@kenvng]

@@2sik_UK What Putin doing to Ukraine is not disrespect? Calling the Ukrainian people axis as an excuse to invade and slaughter their people. The very people who fought WWII. You know who the real axis is? You guess. Serve it right. I hope that they take them all down.

[@maximzhukov889]

@@2sik_UK Советские солдаты уничтожили 80% всех сил, как вы выражаетесь, оси.

[@ivansg8391]

Congratulations and well done Latvia! 🇪🇦♥️🇱🇻🇺🇦 💪🏼 Slava Ukraine!💙💛

[@ADZ01982]

Well done a tribute to all the Soviets who died liberating your country from fascism...

[@mis4nthr0p3]

@@ADZ01982 "liberating" from one set of fascists to be subjugated by another for 45 years.

[@User-cv2xn]

Wtf? its memorial for fallen soldiers in ww2? it has nothing to do with UA, btw a lot of fallen soviet soldiers were from UA, thats called history

[@Belphegor83]

He is Spaniard. And don't cry for the past.

[@mungo7136]

@@ADZ01982 They liberated nobody and nowhere. Its USSR that invaded Poland together with Germany - thus starting WW2 in Europe. They invaded Baltic countries, committed genocide and ethnic cleansing there. No country that fell within operation area of Soviet troops was liberated - all were enslaved, just slaver was replaced. Even more - Soviets had helped Hitler to rise in power as well as to rebuild german military. Not to forget about gulags, extermination camps, state orchestrated famine, Katyn, and so on - all deeds of Soviets.

[@IkramaSiddiq]

The nation that forgotten their history, they will easily broke up. Indonesia always remember their history, bad or good always remembering, We destroy the monument or not, the actual history never be change.

[@matsi1944]

Good job, time for progress 👍

[@tsmartin]

Hope to see more of this from other former Soviet countries. What would be nicer would be if the remains were hauled to the Russian border and dumped over the line.

[@lalzgarra9493]

Are you a child?

[@DavidJohnson-hg1mz]

@@lalzgarra9493 Putin is acting like a cruel bully, so why not act childish towards him. He’s just like trump…. (Except slightly more intelligent) His narcissistic ways are going to be his downfall.

[@lalzgarra9493]

@@DavidJohnson-hg1mz look at this guy, he knows putin lol can you give me an autograph of putin ???? Lmao, cute civilian

[@wagon2463]

@@lalzgarra9493 wonder who the actual child here..

[@Sgt_Bill_T_Co]

@@lalzgarra9493 Is that you Vlad?

[@MustacheSwan]

Why? If it is a WWII memorial then why destroy it, they made some of the greatest sacrifices and won ethe war for everyone

[@ThePantygun]

War mood, war mood, war mood.

[@AndyM_323YYY]

They should leave the rubble as a monument to modern Russian "diplomacy" (aka. threats).

[@BogdanovArtemiy]

Это беспредел честное слово. Забывший историю обречён её повторить.

[@StellarJay]

Remove all traces of evil

[@dvls442]

This was a sign of slavery, opression and communism. Its good that world is free of this evil sign. Well done Latvia!

[@MaydayB]

That is a sign of memory for 40 million people die defending from Nazism. You have a hard case of brain illness, please visit a doctor smh

[@ruslannabioullin3664]

Now they are under a different evil sign from Brussels.

[@TonkistLT]

@@ruslannabioullin3664 Oh no, poor Latvia's being opressed by evil Belgium 😂

[@ThePantygun]

Zionism.

[@henryseidel5469]

Now the Latvians and Estonians are the first line of a potential war theatre against Russia. In case of a war they will disappear in an hour while Uncle Sam is watching from behind the Atlantic.

[@RikR1958]

much nicer view with that monstrosity gone!

[@sandrosantos3622]

I would leave it like it is, so it keeps being a memorial.

[@gersonhay984]

All the Soviet symbolizes relic's need to come down..

[@Sgt_Bill_T_Co]

As the Soviet Union was toppled by the people so were it's statues!

[@oasis1282]

@@Sgt_Bill_T_Co no

[@robn71]

That was a rather good splash 👍

[@kingnevermore25]

It wasnt like the one i splashed over your moms face. Mine had a peculiar white colour.

[@ringostarr3555]

Jolly good show, hay what.

[@robn71]

@@ringostarr3555 I bet Mr P in the Kremlin will not be happy 😅

[@ThePantygun]

Wormwood.

[@petercharlwood1230]

Needless vandalism

[@vickyoconnor7396]

The sun will shine on Ukraine . The brightest star in the sky. 🇮🇪🍀

[@bacomiric]

You watch too much Hollywood movies.

[@thomasoneill5877]

@@bacomiric shut up!!! It's her countries lore you moron!!!

[@thomasoneill5877]

And may the wind be at the backs of the brave and free!!☘️🇮🇪

[@trucking702]

i like doing the river dance naked in my house.

[@HELESPONTify]

What wait IRELAND, why not Liberated Ulster???

[@putan393]

Now Rural russians eat 2 meals per day

[@michalnovak6551]

So sad. I thank all Red Army soldiers for their sacrifice.

[@w.benson3011]

Latvia's is probably only one of three countries in the world, all of them in Europe, where a person can walk around town with a swastika sewn on his or her sleeve and no one blinks an eye. Those few Latvian Jews who survived the Holocaust were rescued by the Soviets.

[@Zeltace-t8o]

Phe, pogroms were Russian tradition, not ours.

[@MsMaksim07]

Это настолько же красиво, как взрывы русских танков на юго-востоке Украины.

[@ese3706]

@Ivan Petrov Лучше было б если Россия сама не была б нацистским государством. Российских зондеркомандо "Z" мы встретим, мы встретим, так же как Украина, встретим вместе с союзниками, другими демократическими, свободными, независимыми государствами.

[@dmytrotkachenko5255]

@Ivan Petrov zюzюzю

[@MsMaksim07]

@Ivan Petrov Я бы удивился, если бы россия опять пришла кого-то "освобождать". Просто нечем это делать. Больше половины армейских ресурсов истрачены, и людских в том числе. Отсюда и переход к обороне в Украине. Даже если сейчас они уберутся домой, не меньше 10 лет нужно на восстановление.

[@Owlmare]

@@MsMaksim07 Yes, the Russians will run out of ammunition, tanks, troops and generals in -March- -April- -June- -August- September, for sure.

[@ampartem1]

@@Owlmare в 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 году может быть точно

[@denisavdeev8148]

If you cant build you destroy.

[@dwaynecostello5788]

special monument operation