The ricochet of Leninopad and the second wave of desovietization of Lithuanian public space
Journal: AREI
Year: 2023

The article analyses the influence of the desovietization of Ukrainian public space (known as Leninopad), which started in 2014 as part of the ʻsecond wave’ of the dismantling of Soviet monuments in Lithuania. Two well-known cases that have sparked the most debate among experts and the public are discussed in detail: the removal of the socialist-realist sculptures from the Green Bridge in Vilnius in 2015, and the removal of a monument to the writer Petras Cvirka in 2021. The conclusion is that i