A Soviet-era, World War II monument was destroyed months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after Riga’s city council voted to remove the monument.
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Latvia took down a 260-foot monument erected during the Soviet era, Latvian foreign minister Edgars Rinkēvičs said in a tweet Thursday. "Closing another painful page of the history and looking for better future," he said.
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