The head of the Institute of National Memory of Poland stressed that the symbol of the Soviet system is being dismantled.
In Poland, four monuments to Red Army soldiers were simultaneously demolished in several places in the country. The dismantling was broadcast live on the website of the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland (IPN) and social networks of the Institute’s regional departments, Ukrinform reports.
At the site of the dismantling of the Soviet monument in the village of Glubczyce, Opole Voivodeship, the leader of the IPN, Karol Nawrocki, stressed that the symbol of the Soviet system, which started the Second World War alongside Adolf Hitler, as well as system that colonized half of Europe after 1945, is being dismantled. including Poland.
The head of the IPN noted that Russia now provides criminal prosecution for the dismantling of monuments of the Soviet era, including those abroad.
“This shows what the mentality of the Russian Federation is: it wants to influence the appearance of the law and the implementation of the law in a free and independent Poland,” he said.
Monuments were dismantled, in addition to Glubczyce, also in Byczyn, Opole Voivodeship, Bobolice, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, and Staszew, Swietokrzyski Voivodeship. All four monuments were built in 1945.
It was previously reported that the last monument to Lenin was dismantled in Finland.
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Source: korrespondent
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