The Schwarzenberg family had portraits of the recently deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny placed on the wall of their palace in the center of Vienna behind the Soviet Memorial to the Heroes of the Red Army, APA wrote. She also reminded that already in 2022, the former Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and his son Johannes arranged for the wall belonging to the Schwarzenberg Palace to be painted with a blue and yellow stripe as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
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11:49 am March 27, 2024
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“The monument commemorates the victims of the dictatorship, and Mr. Navalny is an obvious victim of the dictatorship,” Maximillian Schaffgotsch of the Schwarzenberg Princely Family Foundation told APA (illustrative photo) | Source: Reuters
Portraits by graffiti artist duo Joel Gamnou on the edge of Vienna’s Schwarzenberg Square since Tuesday commemorate the politician who died in February in a Russian penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle.
“The memorial commemorates the victims of the dictatorship, and Mr. Navalny is an obvious victim of the dictatorship,” Maximillian Schaffgotsch of the Schwarzenberg Princely Family Foundation told APA.
According to Schaffgotsch, the initiative to create the memorial site came from three initiators – Beate Meinlová-Reisingerová, chairwoman of the Austrian liberal party NEOS, journalist Hans Rauscher and Johannes Schwarzenberg, the current head of the family.
Schaffgotsch emphasized that the portraits are undoubtedly also in line with the attitudes of the recently deceased head of the princely family and Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, who, according to him, unlike many others, was not wrong in his assessment of the current Russian leader.
The artistic duo Joel Gamnou commissioned the Schwarzenberg Foundation to create two portraits of the Russian opposition leader based on photographs from the media.
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Behind the columns of the Soviet monument from 1945, you can now see Navalny in a suit and tie during his trial about ten years ago, as well as an image of the politician showing the heart symbol with his hands.
At the same time, last weekend, an improvised memorial site for Navalny opposite the Russian embassy in Vienna’s Reisnerstrasse was vandalized for the second time. According to the APA, activists from the Russians against war initiative again brought flowers and attached posters to the construction fence there in recent days.
However, according to the APA, the current memorial site is significantly more modest than the previous one. Their repeated removal is being investigated by the Austrian authorities.
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