Laima Vaikule was requested to be prosecuted under the article “Rehabilitation of Nazism” and banned from entering Russia 04/22/2023, 10:35

The performer of the hit “Vernisage” expressed the opinion that monuments to Soviet soldiers who died in World War II have no artistic value. The artist insisted on destroying them.

“I don’t understand people who said they want to bow their heads in front of a soldier’s monument,” Laima said. – Then go to the cemetery to your father in the country where he lived. It’s just a monument, not a burial place. What is the monument for? I do not understand it. It has no artistic value.”

Vaikule’s words about the alleged need to tear down monuments to Soviet soldiers were commented on by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. “Laima Vaikule has little success in the past – she went on a new record of being inadequate when she said that monuments to Soviet soldiers have no artistic value (!), therefore they need to be demolished (!). Stupidity is, of course, impossible. This can be conjure up only out of mere ignorance and inhuman malice. Or on purpose. The fact is that the clue is contained in the very word ‘monument’. It came from ‘memory’ and not from ‘artistic value’. People who tear down monuments, especially those that have been erected in honor of those who laid down their lives for others, without seeing artistic value in them or denying their memory, they were always called barbarians, ”Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.

Social activists from the Call of the People movement also responded to the scandal. Activists wrote an appeal to the chairman of the investigative committee, Alexander Bastrykin, in which they asked to ban Vaikule from entering the territory of Russia and check the singer for the rehabilitation of Nazism, because they consider her statements an insult to historical memory and those who fought and died during the Great Patriotic War.

“Laima Vaikula is about 70 years old, that is, she has lived to see gray hair, and in the last 50 years I have never heard her opinion that she does not like monuments to the Great Patriotic War. He just wants to curry favor with the new masters,” State Duma deputy Dmitry Gusev said in a comment for Shot.

The Latvian singer also supported neo-Nazis in her video message. She assured that it was only “a few hundred people going to the Freedom Monument”. Lyme called the SS “people who were just on the other side”. The pop star cited an example from her family.

“For example, my relative, my mother’s brother, was on the other side,” Vaikule admitted. “And dad was on this side… We have to understand that, respect that and somehow try not to blow up such a big scandal for us today.”

The singer complained that Russia now owns “everything good”. Lyme said she didn’t like the victory parades in Moscow. The artist accused Russia of “privatizing Victory Day.”

Earlier, Vaikule said that Alla Pugacheva does not help the Ukrainian army. She also referred to herself as “stupid”.