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06 Guards of Riga Castle..

   
06 Guards of Riga Castle.., Riga, Latvia

Built in the thirties to commemorate Latvian independence, it's a puzzle why the Soviets didn't tear down Milda when they took over in 1940. During the Soviet era, a running joke was that the monument was a travel agency, because anyone who dared place flowers at its base got a free, one-way ticket to Siberia.

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