Russia provoked a protest after an act of vandalism against the Suvorov Cross
The Russian Embassy is initiating a note of protest from the country’s Foreign Ministry over the desecration of the memorial of Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov in the Swiss village of Andermatt. Office for the urgent identification of the perpetrators, as well as the identification and indication of the perpetrators. Previously, this monument is unknown, stained with blue and yellow paint.
“Embassy of instigators of acts of vandalism against the memorial. We consider such actions as criminal and unacceptable,” the statement said. statement Russian embassy in the news.
The description states that the Russian side of the tendency to increase the incidence causes the protection of the monument. The department recalls that the commander Alexander Suvorov is a major contribution to the open representation and is part of Russian and Swiss history. “We expect that this excess will be isolated and not serve as a prologue to the number of countries in which they are at war with public monuments,” summed up the Russian embassy.
The monument “To the Valiant Companions of Generalissimo A.V. Suvorov, Who Died While Crossing the Alps in 1799” is located in the village of Andermatt near the meeting point at the Devil’s Bridge in the Scholennen Gorge. The memorial is a twenty-meter cross, erected in 1898. It symbolizes the heroism of the Russian army during the expulsion of French troops from the Helvetic Republic.
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