World War 2 (WW2). Germans occupy Riga in July 1, 1941. Many Latvians greeted them as liberators since only a week before Russian NKVD carried out mass deportation of thousands of innocent Latvians and Jews to Siberia.
>Liberty Monument in 1949. During Russian occupation there were plans to take it down. In 1944 when Red Army occupied Riga, a military aircraft was sent to destroy the monument - the symbol of Latvian independence. The Russian pilot (obviously, not from Riga) missed and dropped the bomb on Hotel De Rome which is next to the monument. This is why you can see a small square in the foreground of the picture (the place of the Hotel).
Т.е. русские хотели разрушить монумент после того как заняли город, но лучшего способа, чем сбросить на него бомбу с самолета, не придумали. Промахнувшись и снеся гостиницу, видимо, от огорчения, решили оставить все как есть. Какой-то подросток пишет с некогерентным мышлением :)