{"id":7406,"date":"2022-08-26T00:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/08\/26\/latvia-brings-down-world-war-ii-memorial\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T00:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:04:43","slug":"latvia-brings-down-world-war-ii-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=7406","title":{"rendered":"Latvia brings down World War II memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Latvia&#8217;s parliament has voted to remove all remaining Soviet statues and plaques. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The country has joined Estonia in bringing down World War II memorials in response to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Demolition machinery was used to remove the 79-metre (259-foot) monument.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-62682771?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Latvia&#8217;s parliament has voted to remove all remaining Soviet statues and plaques. The country has joined Estonia in bringing down World War II memorials in response to Russia&#8217;s invasion &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}