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Another monument in Poland fell victim to the so-called "decommunization", TASS reports. This time it was decided to liquidate the monument to the Soviet-Polish brotherhood in arms, which was erected on the central square of the city of Czechowice-Dziedzice. The head of the region announced that the destruction of the monument is carried out in accordance with the law prohibiting the propaganda of "communism or other totalitarian system."
Local mass media write that the fate of the monument became the subject of heated discussion, which continued until recently.
In particular, representatives of the local population spoke out in defense of the monument. They offered to leave the monument, changing the name to "Monument to those killed on the fronts of the Second World War." More than 200 people put their signatures under the appeal to the authorities. The petition noted that over the years of its existence, the monument has become part of the urban space. In addition, it also has artistic value. The authors of the letter called the monument "an excellent example of the Polish school of socialist realism and monumentalism of Xavier Dunikowski, whose student was the author of the monument, Stanislav Marchinow."
The coronavirus pandemic and the associated strict quarantine measures did not stop the process of combating Soviet monuments in Poland. Last year, six monuments to Soviet soldiers-liberators were dismantled, and eight more monuments were attacked by vandals.
The Russian Embassy in Warsaw noted that over 25 years, the number of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Poland has decreased fivefold. At the end of the 1990s, the number of monuments was more than five hundred and sixty, and a little more than a hundred of them have survived to this day.
Russkiy Mir
