Poland rejected the proposal of Russia to establish a monument to the tortured Red Army soldiers in Krakow
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Russian militaryhistorical society (RVIO) not so long ago turned to the Polish side with a proposal to erect a monument on the territory of Poland to the Red Army soldiers who were tortured to death in Polish concentration camps during the Soviet-Polish war of 1919-1920. RVIO organized a fundraiser for the creation of such a monument and proposed to install it in Krakow at the Rakovitsky cemetery, where thousands of Red Army soldiers are buried in common graves.
In response to this initiative, Polish politicians said they did not want to hear about such a monument. At the same time, the arguments of the RVIO that there is a Polish monument in Katyn (near Smolensk), and it would be nice to establish a Russian monument in Krakow as a symbol of reconciliation, taken hostile. Reports about it RIA News.
The Polish authorities say that Red Army prisoners who were shot or died in the Polish camps were “aggressors who did not deserve to commemorate them.” The Polish Foreign Minister generally called the RVIO initiative a provocation aimed at “the division of the Poles”.
Interesting rhetoric of the Polish side. Polish authorities called the Red Army fighters aggressors, who responded to the conquest of the Polish army to the east. If Poland has forgotten, then it needs to be reminded that it was Warsaw who once unleashed the war by organizing a military offensive aimed at conquering lands in order to return Poland to the territory of the Commonwealth of the Year sample 1772. So who is the real aggressor?
If the Polish side calls the possible establishment of a monument to the Red Army soldiers (captive fighters who perished in Polish concentration camps) in Krakow, a provocation, then what is a Polish monument in Katyn near Smolensk. Is it not time to raise the question that the Katyn memorable sign causes a split in Russian society and solve the issue of its dismantling? ..
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