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Yet another Red Army monument desecrated in Poland

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Yet another Red Army monument desecrated in Poland


23.01.2018

pixabay.comThe Monument of Gratitude to the Red Army was desecrated in Polish city Olsztyn, TASS reports. The name of the attacker is well-known. It is the member of anticommunist movement of the Polish People's Republic Wojciech Kozel. As per domestic media, Kozel went up with a lifting truck and put on the poster with Red Army soldier harassing a female. The text says: “The Monument of Gratitude for captivity.”

It is not the first action of this kind initiated by Kozel. 1,5 years ago he poured paint on the memorial. The activist claims this deed as a protest against a totalitarian system.

Monuments to Soviet Soldiers are continuously targeted by vandals in Poland. One of a recent examples is a memorial cemetery in Warsaw. The bronze slab with names was broken down in Sosnowiec of southern Poland.

As we reported before,  on June 22nd Polish Parliament have approved amendments to the current legislation about “decommunization” which suppose pulling down of around five hundred monuments honoring Communism. The memorials will be pulled down within a year since the moment the law comes into effect. Overall, Poland has around 500 such memorial objects, about half of them is devoted to the Red Army.

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