WARSAW, may 4 – RIA Novosti. Map of monuments and graves of soldiers-liberators will create in Poland until the end of the year, told RIA Novosti the head of the public organization “Kursk” hedgehogs Pow.
a spokesman explained that the map is created on the basis of the Annex to the Russian-Polish intergovernmental agreement on burial sites and places of memory of victims of wars and repression of 22 February 1994. The map will be marked with more than 600 monuments to Soviet soldiers-liberators, the soldiers of the Polish army, and others. This will be object coordinates, a short description, information about his condition at the moment.
Pow noted that it is impossible to say how many stayed in Poland monuments to soldiers-liberators. “For sure, neither I nor anyone else knows. It so happens that the monument stands today, and it’s gone tomorrow. It so happens that the monuments are destroyed quietly, sometimes even secretly. Therefore, when you make a private inspection, as the information appearing in the Internet very often is irrelevant,” he said.
in the Fall of 2017 in Poland entered into force amendments to the law banning the promotion of communism or another totalitarian regime. The act requires local authorities, among other things, to the demolition of Soviet monuments. According to estimates of the Institute of national remembrance of Poland, it concerns more than 450 sites across the country, 230 of which are the monuments of the soldiers of the red Army. However, the law does not apply to cemeteries and burial sites.
