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The Polish authorities must find and punish those who committed an act of vandalism against a monument to Soviet soldiers in the village of Mikolin, the Russian Foreign Ministry (MFA) claims.
The MFA called the war against monuments to the liberators of Europe "outrageous", TASS reports. This case is a vivid example of "flagrant disregard for universal morality".
Last week vandals tried to blow up a monument. The memorial complex was set in honor of the soldiers died in the winter of 1945 crossing the Oder river. The Commonwealth of KURSK restored it a year ago.
Criminals installed an 11- kg-gas-cylinder in a boat carved out of stone in the base of the monument. They put it on an automobile tire and fired it. Probably, the vandals hoped that the balloon would explode out of high temperatures and destroy the memorial. Only accidentally this did not happen. The monument received minimal damage.
Russian diplomats reminded Warsaw about the international commitments undertaken in relation to the memorials.
The Foreign Ministry also demanded the monument to be fixed. In addition, the authorities should take measures to prevent such vandalism.
As Russkiy Mir reported, only for the first six months of 2018 there were more than thirty attacks on monuments in Poland. Twenty-six monuments were dismantled.
Russkiy Mir
