Today, the largest still remaining soviet monument in Latvia was demolished. Officially named the "Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders" and the number of qualifiers in there should tip you off how self-evidently beloved it was.
Personally, I think it should have been removed along with all the Lenin statues when we regained our independence in 1991, but there was an agreement for maintaining military burial and remembrance sites. Which, more or less reasonable. Let the dead lie.
The Victory Monument, as it's normally called, was on this list. Argued, probably, based on its symbolic meaning as a soldier memorial. (Nobody is buried there) But it being a large complex very close to the center of the city and visible from almost anywhere, meant that it quickly became a very convenient tool for Russian propaganda. People gathering - look, people love and miss being soviet subjects, we should be one country again! People not gathering when expected or even protesting - look at how fascist-ridden the country is, because any opposition to USSR (and by extension Russia) is the definition of fascism.
Then, when the war started this year, the agreement was called into question. If one side of the agreement does not and will not respect the sovereignty of its neighbors or prior agreements (like the Budapest Memorandum), then their opinion of our internal matters should not be relevant. Well, the Saeima came through and removed the legal requirement for local authorities to consider those treaties when making decisions.
And now it's gone, done, over, felled. Good fucking riddance.