Poland’s state Institute for National Remembrance (INR) has urged regional authorities to dismantle 500 Soviet monuments in the country's territory.
Poland’s state Institute for National Remembrance (INR) has urged regional authorities to dismantle 500 Soviet monuments in the country's territory.
Soviet monuments, according to the Poland's Institute of National Remembrance head Lukasz Kaminski, symbolize the supremacy of the communist system in Poland and must be destroyed
"We are currently recalculating places, where Soviet monuments are still located. By June we will offer a project that will encourage local authorities to destroy Soviet monuments, even before a respective law [emerges]," Kaminsky said.
However, TASS informs the proposal concerns the monuments erected in public places as tokens of gratitude to the Soviet Union. The initiative does not apply to monuments at the graves and cemeteries of Soviet soldiers.
The demolished monuments, via Kaminsky, will be removed and transferred to museums where they can become “a witness of hard times,” the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
