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Another monument to Soviet soldiers who liberated the Polish people from the Nazi occupiers fell victim to the course that Warsaw is pursuing, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. The country's authorities continue to try to erase from memory the feat of the Red Army, the diplomat said during a briefing the day before, April 22. She recalled that it was the Soviet soldiers who allowed the Poles to survive.
As part of the so-called "decommunization" policy, the Polish authorities are destroying Soviet memorial sites, said the spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The continuation of this shameful campaign was the liquidation of the monument of gratitude to the Red Army in the town of Lesko, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. The Red Army drove the Nazis out of the city in the fall of 1944. The monument was erected in 1945 near the mass grave of Soviet soldiers. Subsequently, their remains were moved to the cemetery located in the city of Baligrud.
The Russian Embassy in Warsaw noted that over 25 years, the number of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Poland had decreased fivefold. In the late 1990s, the number of monuments was more than 560, and a little more than 100 have survived to this day.
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