The alley named after interwar Lithuanian diplomat Kazys Škirpa has a new name: the city council today approved the proposal to rename the street in the Vilnius old town next to Gediminas Hill Tricolor Alley.

The city council also approved a proposal by the Labor Party faction in the council to erect an information board on Tricolor Alley to showcase how Škirpa and compatriots resisted the Soviets.

Škirpa is a controversial historical figure. According to the Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of Residents of Lithuania, the organization he commanded raised anti-Semitism to the political level and that could have incited some Lithuanians to commit Holocaust crimes. The Center says despite that Škirpa’s organization sought to solve “the Jewish problem” by deporting Jews out of Lithuania, not through genocide, and that members of that organization were not allowed to know beforehand the Nazis planned the total extermination of all Jews.