Poland declared war on fallen Red Army soldiers
The Polish authorities continue to demolish monuments to Soviet soldiers who liberated this country from the Nazis.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Izvestia was informed about this at the Russian Embassy in Warsaw.
“Since March 2020, when the coronavirus epidemic came to Poland, we have recorded six cases of dismantling, on the direct orders of voivodeship or local authorities, monuments and memorial signs to Red Army soldiers. During the same period, eight acts of vandalism were committed against Soviet military graves or monuments,” the diplomatic mission said.
It is specified that monuments were demolished in the village of Wieluń (Lodz Voivodeship), in Kunowice (Lubskie Voivodeship), the city of Szamotuly, the villages of Rzecin and Sokolowo (Greater Poland Voivodeship), as well as in Wysokie Mazowieckie (Podlaskie Voivodeship).
The diplomats also clarified that in 1997 there were 561 such monuments in Poland, but now there are just over 100 of them left.
Thus, Warsaw is implementing the so-called decommunization law of 2016 (with subsequent amendments), which provides, in particular, for the removal from public space of all objects that allegedly “promote the totalitarian communist system.”
“The Polish authorities also include monuments to Soviet soldiers-liberators located outside the territory of military burial grounds, although their destruction is a violation of the Russian-Polish Treaty on Friendly and Good Neighborhood Relations of May 22, 1992 and the intergovernmental agreement on burial places and places of memory of victims of wars and repressions from February 22, 1994,” the embassy emphasized.
In total, about 600 thousand Soviet soldiers and officers died during the liberation of Poland. About a million more prisoners of war from the USSR died in Nazi camps and were buried in Poland.
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