Warsaw, trying to annoy the Russians, outraged the memory of Polish soldiers
In Poland, the official authorities actually committed an act of vandalism, partially destroying the monument to Soviet and Polish paratroopers who fought behind enemy lines against the Nazi invaders. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated this at a briefing in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Zakharova, we are talking about a memorial in the village of Sokolowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship. The Foreign Ministry demanded that the monument be returned to its original appearance.
“The war against memorial heritage continues in Poland. By decision of the Polish authorities, the monument to Soviet and Polish paratroopers was partially destroyed. It is located near the village of Sokolowo in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The names of Soviet and Polish soldiers were removed from it, and the inscription that immortalized the feat of the Soviet and Polish soldiers who landed in this place in 1944 from the airborne sabotage group of Lieutenant Ilishevich of the 1st Army of the Polish Army operating behind German lines was eliminated.
Usually what I'm talking about now is done by vandals. And that’s what we call it – acts of vandalism. Now I’m talking about what the official Polish government is doing. I do not use these words not because such actions do not fit this qualification, but because we are giving the Polish government a chance to somehow rehabilitate itself.
As far as we know, the question is now being decided whether the monument will be completely dismantled or left with some new, impersonal inscription. Both are violations of the Russian-Polish intergovernmental agreement of 1994 on burial sites and places of memory of victims of wars and repressions...
As we see, in attempts to rewrite history by erasing objectionable pages from it, Poland does not stop at erasing from memory the names of Polish fighters against Nazism, along with the names of Red Army soldiers,” Zakharova said.
Earlier, historian Oleg Nemensky explained that one of the goals of the campaign to demolish Soviet monuments in Poland is to hide information that significant territories that are part of the Polish state today were a gift from the USSR following the results of the Second World War.
According to the expert, these territories were recaptured from the Nazis not by the Polish, but by the Red Army. However, ungrateful Poles today allow themselves to demolish monuments to Soviet soldiers.
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