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Polish authorities should investigate and punish vandals committed an act of vandalism at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers and prisoners of war in Gdansk, Poland, the Russian Foreign Ministry says. Russian diplomats reminded Warsaw about the international commitments and moral duty to those who sacrificed their lives for the Polish people freedom, TASS reports.
Russkiy Mir reported earlier, that unknown individuals desecrated the military cemetery three days ago. There were buried the Soviet soldiers perished during the liberation of Poland from the Nazis. The vandals bent more than twenty metal stars set on the graves of fallen heroes.
The local police authorities are looking for the vandals. According to eyewitnesses, there were three of them. The crime was committed in broad daylight. Gdansk necropolis is one of the largest military burial sites in Poland. More than 2,500 Soviet soldiers are buried there.
Local officials in close cooperation with Russian diplomats are working to eliminate the damage caused to the memorial.
The Russian Foreign Ministry is convinced that there is a direct correlation between acts of vandalism which have become more frequent and the Polish authorities’ attempts to rewrite the WWII history and its results.
Attacks on monuments and memorials are the consequent of the Polish authorities destructive policy. They aspire to eliminate anything that would serve as a reminder of its liberation by the Red Army.
which brought peace and freedom to the Poles.
In Poland there are more cases of vandalism against Soviet-era memorials then anywhere else in Europe. For the first six months in 2018 there were more than thirty attacks on monuments. 26 monuments were dismantled.
Russkiy Mir
