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Polish activists launch contest for best project of monument to Soviet soldiers

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Polish activists launch contest for best project of monument to Soviet soldiers


19.09.2018

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The Polish Commonwealth of KURSK has announced a competition for the best draft for a new monument to Soviet soldiers who liberated Poland, according to EADaily

The monument is planned to install in the small village of Jasiel in the Podkarpackie voivodeship near the Slovak border. There are twenty-five graves where the soldiers of the 2nd and 7th Guards Cavalry Division and the 101st Corps of the 38th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front are buried.

Ezhy Tyts, the head of the public organization, explained that today the cemetery was almost abandoned and looks more like a forest. There are many trees and only small hillocks remain the graves. Only a pillar of concrete stays instead of the monument.

Society members are going to restore the memorial. They visited the site, made the measurements.

The volunteers want to erect a sculpture of two figures – a man and a woman. The sign "Appreciate the blood spilled by us ..." will appear on the monument in Russian and Polish.

The KURSK head added that he discussed the possibility to make a monument in Poland. But if the situation in the country suddenly changes and it will be impossible then the monument can be made by Russian, Belarusian or Ukrainian agencies.

Sketches are accepted untill November 30. Three best works will be selected at the first stage then the subcarpathian voevoda will determine the winner. The finalists will be invited to the opening of the monument.

The solemn ceremony will be timed to coincide with the Day of Memory and Sorrow celebrated on June 22.

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