Two Die in Demolition of WWII Memorial

"An explosion to demolish a World War II memorial in Georgia’s second largest city of Kutaisi killed two people, officials said.

A mother and her 8-year-old daughter were the victims. Several other people were injured.

“According to the preliminary information safety measures were not met,” Murtaz Zodelava, the country’s chief prosecutor said and added that the investigation was ongoing.

Removal of the 46-meter-high concrete and bronze memorial aimed at making the way for a construction of a new building of the Parliament."

Civil.Ge | Two Die in Demolition of WWII Memorial

How could they be that careless? "Safety measures were not met"......so then why did they still demolish it...:eh:

 

Why did they destroy it in the first place! The response from the Russians (who have generally had a good post war track record when it came to veterans who fought and died on their soil) makes me believe Georgia probably did it to piss them off with the recent tensions and all.

 

Civil.Ge | Russian MPs Condemn Demolition of WWII Memorial in Georgia

 

Terrible thought that a Remembrance Monument inaugurated to promote peace caused the death of two civilians

 

I'm thinking that the Georgians still dont like the Russians and were deliberately tearing down a monument built by the Russians to replace it with their own Parliament building. (The Reds were so disliked that initially many Ukrainians and Georgians welcomed the Nazis as liberators! That didn't last long btw)

 

Links used to be tighter though, there is a Russian minority in Georgia and Stalin was Georgian, but with the recent events of nationalism, the local war there and the Russian occupation of part of Georgia , Georgia has not to many options to show Russia it exists, since military strategy did not work, they now try a psychological stategy war. Pretty useless, as besides getting Russia angry it killed two innocents .

 

PM Putin to unveil replacement for destroyed Georgia WWII monument | Russia | RIA Novosti

 

Can't get any of the links to open.
Couldn't they just have removed the Soviet insigna?