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On Saturday morning, the entrances to the Antakalnis cemetery were guarded by a large police force.
It was impossible to get to the cemetery and park the car.
However, this and the call not to demonstrate due to rampant coronaviruses did not stop those who wish to commemorate the end of World War II, which Europe commemorates the day before.
Like every year, red carnations could be purchased at cemetery entrances, which fans bought and placed at a memorial to soldiers on Victory Day, which was celebrated in the Soviet Union and is now celebrated in Russia.
For a carnation, vendors asked for 80 euro cents this year, and it was also possible to buy the Georgija ribbons here, which were used by a person who often went to the cemetery.
VIDEO Commemoration of May 9 in the Antakalnis cemetery
There were also children in Soviet soldier hats, one of whom came with a toy machine. Another young commemorator arrived at the cemetery with a military helmet.
This year it was decided that there would be no speech events at the Antakalnis Cemetery. Ordinarily, war veterans dressed in orders with portraits of dead soldiers gathered at the cemetery on this day.
Perhaps because the coronavirus is particularly dangerous to the elderly, they were not seen in the Antakalnis cemetery this year, but there were few older people here until noon on Saturday.
Julius Kalinskas / 15min photo / May 9 commemoration
“I wear a mask. Path covered, you see? Covered”, – he asked if he was not afraid of the virus, 15min said a woman who came to the cemetery on Saturday.
According to her, this opportunity could not be missed.
“It is a party for me, it is important for me because my grandfather fought, my father.” All eternal rest: he was also an officer. This is a party that is honorable to me, ”he said.
Still, there were concerns about the coronavirus.
Another man with a wife and two children. 15min He jokingly claimed that he did not know what kind of virus was rampant in Lithuania, but then, angrily, declared that the journalist was too close to him.
Julius Kalinskas / 15min photo / May 9 commemoration
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the leaders of the Baltic States signed a joint declaration in which the presidents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia paid tribute to the memory of the victims of World War II and called for the rejection of attempts to rewrite history.
Western Europe, including Lithuania, commemorates the end of World War II on May 8. On this day in 1945, Germany signed an unconditional act of capitulation.
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