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Legal protection of objects will not be considered if they feature the Nazi flag, coat of arms, swastika, SS sign, as well as flags of the USSR or the Lithuanian SSR, their coats of arms, symbol of the Soviet hammer and sickle, soviet five-pointed star. Monuments with symbols of Nazi or Soviet organisations will not be evaluated as well.

Neither will be monuments of members of Germany's National Socialist or the USSR's Communist Parties, if they were responsible for the repressions against Lithuanian residents.

The law takes effect next week. It may affect the infamous Soviet statues on the Green Bridge in Vilnius. The Chairwoman of the State Commission of Cultural Heritage, Grazina Dremaite, has said that if the sculptures of the Green Bridge are excluded from the Register of Cultural Property, then Vilnius City Municipality should decide their fate.