Like Big Oil’s bonanza profits, this has brought a windfall for World War II revisionists and even Nazi apologists, undermining any shared narrative and understanding of the globally unifying struggle against fascism, which once formed the moral arc of the postwar order. The disinformation wars around the fight in Ukraine have spread well beyond the present, unsettling even the dead of the past - namely, those who fell in the global anti-fascist struggle against Nazism. Now, the children and grandchildren of some of the ten million Red Army casualties - maimed or, more often than not, resting in unmarked graves - no longer have a site of memory to carry the last photos of their heroic loved ones. The destruction date was kept secret, but when the 260-foot futurist spire came crashing down into the reflecting pool, applause broke out, and congratulatory videos of the event were tweeted by leading Latvian officials. First the bulldozers came for the flowers, then after a decree a month later, they came for the memorial itself. Rather, they appeared along a rigid no-gap fence, constructed by police dozens of feet from the actual memorial. They could not actually be laid at Riga’s monument to Victory in World War II, which was doomed to destruction in May 2022. Just months before the bulldozers came, there was one last sea of flowers.
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