FILE - In this Wednesday June 22, 2011 file photo, lanterns fly over one of the Soviet WWII war monuments marking the heroic resistance of the Soviet Army against the surprise Nazi German attack during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of Nazi invasion in the town of Brest, 360 kilometers (223 miles) southwest of Minsk, Belarus. U.S. television network CNN caused a firestorm when it included the war monument in Brest, a city in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, in an article on the “world’s ugliest monuments” published Jan. 24. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, file)
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