On August 27, about the barbaric destruction of the monument to fallen Soviet soldiers in Salaspils near Riga. Whose memory was desecrated by vandals? Two hundred Red Army soldiers are buried here. Among those known by name are #Russian Junior Lieutenant Ivan Vasilyevich Novoselov, Ukrainian Private Nikolai Danilovich Yankovsky, Belarusian Private Dmitry Denisovich Fedechko, and Sergeant Rafik Khamidyanovich Nafikov, a native of Bashkortostan who was drafted in Uzbekistan.