The situation around monuments to the Red Army in Poland will become a subject of discussion at the conference under title Honor Their Memory…, TASS informs. The conference will be held in Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in Warsaw. It is organized by Kursk Memorial Society dealing with restoration of monuments.
Among the participants are members of political and veteran organizations from a dozen of different countries as well as representative of diplomatic office in Poland.
According to the head of Kursk Memorial Society Ezhi Tyc, they sent an invitation to the Polish regional administrations, however neither of them has accepted it. Representatives of law enforcement agencies were also invited. They will be questioned on the subject of low efficiency of investigation of vandalism towards memorials and burial site of Soviet soldiers.
The Forum participants are going to discuss preventive measures of destruction of the above-mentioned memorial complexes and burial sites including measures in the field of information and organizations.
Besides, organizers propose to accept the application of all the interested parties addressed to the official Warsaw and call the authorities for fulfillment of undertaken obligations on eternalizing memory of Soviet soldiers who liberated the Republic from Nazism. They also plan to establish a working group dealing with questions of preservation of Soviet memorials and monuments in Poland.
Ezhi Tyc has noted earlier that anti-Russian moods resulted in more frequent acts of vandalism at the Soviet cemeteries. According to the public activist, such behavior is inappropriate for the civilized country.
As the Russkiy Mir has advised, on June 22 Polish Parliament approved of the amendments to the Law about Decommunization implying pulling down several hundreds of monuments allegedly praising the Soviet regime. All monuments will be destroyed within a year. Overall, there are about five hundred memorials of the kind; approximately a half of them is devoted to the Red army.
Russkiy Mir
