the Monument to Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, who commanded the Soviet forces that liberated Poland, was put in Legnica on 4 November 1987. But in “dashing” 90-e poles on the bulldozers equated with the earth, everything that connected them with the Soviet Union.
the First was removed from the pedestal monument to the liberation of kraków Marshal I. S. Konev. Countrymen barely have time to take it to Kirov. For born in Warsaw Rokossovsky was no one to stand up. 20 Oct 1992 municipal services demolished the statue of the work of local sculptor Augustin Dirty, sawed to pieces and nearly sent to the facility. Saved bronze Marshal local collector, founder of the Museum of the red Army Michal Sabado. He not only bought the monument, but also restored it, put in the garden of his home near the Museum. For 27 years, veterans and those who honor the memory of the liberators of Poland from the Nazi occupation came on may 9 to lay flowers to the monument to Rokossovsky, to venerate the memory of those who saved their country.
But in December last year, the elderly owner of the Museum decided to transfer the statue to the state. The monument to Marshal Rokossovsky was installed in the communal cemetery next to the burial place of Soviet soldiers who died liberating the German Legnica, who after the war Polish Legnica.
Nearby stood a monument to Soviet and Polish soldiers, demolished in the framework of the infamous war of the Polish authorities with the monuments of gratitude to the red army. This is called the open air exhibition “Shadow stars”, and should be protected. But neither the alleged security nor the cemetery gate did not stop the criminals who shot on the night of July 30, the statue from the pedestal and retired with her to an unknown destination.
in the Morning, the Vice-mayor of Legnica Krzysztof Dashkevich appealed to residents to report if any of them know something about the whereabouts of the monument. And on Thursday evening the police received information that he was lying in a field on the outskirts of the city. Upon arrival, police found that unknown thieves had sawed off the bronze head Rokossovsky and Marshal’s Mace. And this suggests that the attackers were not motivated by greed, and hatred, which in recent years ignite in the people the Polish authorities.
