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"The place blessed with the blood of 700 Russian captives brutally murdered by the Nazis in 1942-1944. Memory Eternal", an inscription on a monument erected at a mass grave in the Polish village of Gmina Jastrzębia says. The restored burial site will be solemnly opened on December 8, the Petersbursky Dnevnik reports.
For many years, the grave and monument were dilapidated. Its overhaul became possible by the Russian Immortal Names project which restores military memorials abroad.
Photo: The Naval cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Kronstadt Foundation
The restoration of the monument in Jastrzębia was supported by a presidential grant and donations from Russians and Poles and two Russian ministries (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense).
According to the organizers of the Immortal Names project, the restoration of the memorial to Soviet prisoners of war is a unique prove that it is still possible to unite the citizens and authorities of the two countries with a good and important cause in these difficult times when Western politicians and the media deliberately distort history and manipulate it.
In recent years, several projects have been implemented in Poland to restore monuments to Soviet soldiers. In the village of Milejczyce, a cemetery with more than 1500 graves was restored. Vandals destroyed it. Monuments to Soviet and Polish soldiers in the villages of Mikolin and Krosno Odrzanskie were also restored.
Unfortunately, the news about the graves and monuments restored in Poland in honor of the Soviet soldiers are much rarer than the news about their destroying. However, earlier vandals and representatives of nationalist groups were engaged in this. In 2017 the Polish Sejm adopted amendments to the decommunization law. The Red Army monuments destruction was actually legalized.
Russkiy Mir
