Named the number of demolished monuments to Soviet soldiers in Poland: since 1997, more than 420 Soviet monuments were dismantled. This is reported by Izvestia with reference to the Russian Embassy in Washington.
In 1997, 561 monuments were numbered on the territory of Poland, now they remained a little more than 100.
At the same time, in the embassy, they stressed that in 2020, despite tough quarantine measures in Poland, six monuments of redarmeys were dismantled, and eight years of military monuments and burials were attacked by Vandals. Thus, monuments were demolished in the village of Velulun (Lodz Voivodeship), in Cunovice (Lubudy Voivodeship), Shamotuly, Village and Sokolovo (Greater Poland Voivodeship), as well as in high-Mazowieck (Podlaskie Voivodeship).
The demolition of these monuments is “in violation of intergovernmental agreements”, emphasized in dipstream.
However, in the Embassy of Poland in Russia, it is believed that only the burial of Soviet soldiers fall under the agreements, and the symbolic monuments in protective lists are not included. “Poland and Poles respect the bloody sacrifice of the soldiers of the Red Army, who fought with the Nazi occupier in the country during the Second World War,” clarified there. According to the Embassy of Poland in Moscow, Warsaw consistently realizes the so-called “law on decamsmanization of 2016”.
In 2020, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov called on the Polish side to be afraid of God and make searches and the punishment of those who desecrate the burials located in the country and monuments to the soldiers of the Red Army, who freed Europe from fascism.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov previously stated that Poland “leads to the anti-Russian race” to demolish monuments. Lavrov also believes that in the country “consciously, successively, the Russophobia as a national idea is arranged large scale.”
In July 2017, the President of Poland Angey Duda signed a new edition of the decamsmanization law, which provides for the dismantling of Soviet monuments throughout the country, including busts and memorable plates. The ban, which came into force in the fall of 2017, did not touch the cemetery and burial sites. In addition, it is envisaged to remove the communist elements from the names of schools, other social institutions, buildings, structures and objects of public domain, streets, bridges and squares.