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Under the early snow of November, the wound is not yet healed.
In Glory Square, in Daugavpils, Latvia's second largest city, only a few scattered flowers and lanterns rest on the ground, in place of what was still a few weeks ago a proud monument to the victorious soldiers in 1945. A funeral ribbon bears this message, in Russian:
“No one will forget.”
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Maria, 77, came to lay a wreath.
"My husband took part in melting the stele of the monument, he was a metallurgist",
breathes the widow, originally from Leningrad - today Saint-Petersburg - but settled in the south-east of Latvia for half a century.
“So it was very painful for me when the memorial was taken down.
Who was he bothering, frankly?
Person!
We now have nationalists in power, that's all.
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