Damage to Irbene radio telescopes

There is a version that there was a plan to blow them up, but after the protests of radio astronomers and scientists, they remained intact / two contradictory versions of the blasting - one, the armies wanted to do it, the other - the successors of the war base from Latvia. Probably for fear that the departed may plan to return soon ... /. However, when leaving, the army damaged the antenna systems as much as they learned - the nails were healed in the cables, the electric motors were acid-coated, the control units were made unusable.