WARSAW: Poland said Tuesday it would create a park for more than 200 Soviet-era statues and Red Army monuments scattered across the country that symbolize its decades-long communist era domination by Moscow.
“There’s no reason to glorify monuments devoted to the memory of the Red Army which twice invaded Poland (WWI, WWII) and is responsible for several post-war crimes,” said Pawel Ukielski, head of Poland’s state Institute for National Remembrance (IPN).
Local authorities will be able to move the monuments to the northern town of Borne Sulinowo, once a massive closed Soviet base in Poland.
Ukielski however insisted that monuments erected in cemeteries …read more
Source: The Manila Times
