In Poland for four years desecrated more than 70 monuments to Soviet soldiers

More than 70 monuments to soviet soldiers and their graves were desecrated in Poland in recent years, said the ambassador of Russia in Poland sergey andreev, speaking at an international conference on thursday in Warsaw. Currently, Poland is the first international conference "Honor their memory. " devoted to the current in Poland and other countries of the situation with the monuments and the graves of soviet soldiers who died during the second world war. In 2014, frequent cases of vandalism on the soviet memorial sites in Poland, most of them is not in relation to the so-called "Symbolic" monuments and military cemeteries, has no justification from the point of view of any ethical standards – as a christian, and simple human decency — said the head of the Russian diplomatic mission. Between Russia and Poland there is an intergovernmental agreement on burial sites and places of memory of victims of wars and repression of 22 february 1994. At the time of signing of this agreement, in Poland there were more than 500 places. Currently they have about half. The president of Poland andrzej duda in mid-july signed amendments to the law on prohibition of propaganda of communism or another totalitarian regime in the names of buildings, objects and facilities for public use. The law shall enter into force three months from the date of signing and suggests, among other things, the demolition of soviet monuments.

According to estimates of the institute of national remembrance of Poland, responsible for the memorial work, a law on de-communization will affect about 230 monuments of the red army. The Russian foreign ministry said that the signing of the polish president of the law permitting the demolition of soviet monuments, is a flagrant provocation, which will not remain without consequences. During the liberation of Poland were killed over 600 thousand soviet soldiers, and were killed by germans about 700 thousand soviet prisoners of war, reports RIA Novosti.