With the participation of only representatives of the ruling factions, the project was approved and submitted to the committees of the Seimas, according to Delfi.lt.

"This project is a democratic way of defending against ideologies that seek to destroy democracy, humanity, the identity of states and nations, and the traces they have left," said

, one of the initiators of the law and chairman of the Seimas Commission on Remembrance for Freedom and State History. memory.

According to Kuzmitskene, the project will create preconditions for the removal of symbols of totalitarianism and authoritarianism from public space - monuments, other memorials, names of streets, squares and other public facilities.

• According to the project, it will be forbidden to promote totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and their ideologies in public places, immortalizing or displaying them in any form.

Materials on specific objects will be provided by municipal institutions, and the conclusion will be prepared by a special interdepartmental commission formed by the resolution of the Seimas.

• The above-mentioned prohibitions do not apply to museums, archives, libraries that organize exhibitions that inform the public about totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, their consequences, who use such objects, information for educational, scientific, professional artistic and collection purposes.

According to the draft, if a decision is made that a public object should not be removed, it can be left provided that it is accompanied by objective information about totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and their consequences.

The law is expected to come into force on November 1 this year.

Currently, Lithuania has only administrative responsibility for demonstrating, disseminating and promoting certain symbols of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.