Variants of the names of L. Giros street in the capital will be submitted in February, they say Vilnius city municipalities Kamilė Šeraitė-Gogelienė, chairperson of the Historical Memory Commission.
"We will definitely rename it, because the commission clarified that the municipality will follow the current laws and we will move forward with that renaming. We will only discuss the future name with the residents by offering them possible options, and we will offer them at the next meeting in February," K. Šeraitė-Gogelienė said to Eltai.
"We will think about what to do about Mr. Cvirka's square, because we do not yet have a vision of what will be in it and what it will look like. They would probably like to associate the name with the already renovated square," she added.
ELTA reminds that the De-Soviet Commission meeting on Monday decided that Petro Cvirka Square and Liudo Giros Street in Vilnius promote the totalitarian regime and must be renamed.
As of May 2023, 1, the decommunization law came into force in Lithuania. It is applied in any form to persons, symbols, information that are immortalized or depicted, promoting totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and their ideologies.
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The law adopted by the Seimas in December 2022 also provides for the removal of symbols of totalitarianism and authoritarianism from public spaces - monuments, other memorial objects, names of streets, squares and other public objects.
LGGRTC and municipal institutions are expected to recognize public objects as propagating totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and their ideologies.
Martyna Pikelytė (ELTA)
