The Polish government plans to demolish about 500 Soviet monuments throughout the country, head of the Institute of National Remembrance Lukasz Kaminsky said in an interview with online portal Onet.pl, the RBC news website reported Thursday.
Kaminsky — whose institute is responsible for investigating crimes against the Polish nation — said that plans for the demolition of the monuments, would be sent to local authorities in the coming weeks.
— the Moscow Times
According to the report, the monuments will be relocated to museums where they can serve as a "witness of hard times."
Many Soviet war memorial have been vandalized and demolished in Poland, whose population views the Soviet role in the Second World War "with ambiguity or outright hostility."
Russians have reacted strongly to these moves in Poland. In their view, the Red Army liberated Poland from the Nazis.
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For a moment, I thought this story was about Portland. And I thought, "Oh good. Maybe that means we can finally take down the Lenin statues in Seattle too."
here come the Catholics!
gwharton, we must have the same form of dyslexia then because I read Portland too.
They suffered long enough under the Russian occupation and communist genocidal system. Time to get back to normal.
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