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Poland Will Also Remove Soviet Monuments
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland is developing a program that will allow local authorities destroy or relocate monuments erected in the Socialist era. Polish Minister of Culture Kazimierz Ujazdowski stated that “symbols of the communist dictatorship will disappear from the cities and streets of Poland as alien to Polish culture.”
He pointed out that the purpose of the program “is not to disrespect or neglect the graves of soldiers of the Soviet Army” in Poland. A list of monuments of “the Soviet era” and streets recommended for renaming has been sent out to local governments.
One of the first monuments that is likely to go will be the monument to Polish-Soviet military brotherhood in the Prague neighborhood of Warsaw, erected in 1945.
The Katyn Committee, made up of relatives of Polish officers killed in Katyn, Russia, issued a statement earlier expressing support for Estonia in its effort to remove the monument to the Soldier Liberator from downtown Tallinn ad stating that “it is a disgrace that millions [of Polish zloty] still come out of the pockets of Polish taxpayers for the conservation and upkeep of 2000 Soviet monuments.”
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