The emblem of the memorial to the victims of the Red Army who liberated Poland from Nazism during World War II has been removed in Khjovice, a move that Warsaw repudiates.
Commenting on this, Karol Navrutsky, Director of the Polish National Institute of National Memory, said: “There is no place for red stars in the public space of Free Europe, because this symbol conceals the crimes of the communist regime since the days of the war.” Error loading media: File could not be played
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The forces of the First Belorussian Front of the Soviet Red Army in the Brest region on the borders of the Soviet Union had liberated Poland from Nazi occupation in the summer of 1944, as recently declassified documents confirmed many supportive positions on the part of Polish citizens and clergy for the Red Army, and the participation of the people The Polish in care of the mausoleums of Soviet soldiers who died for the liberation of Poland.
Warsaw pledged to preserve the exploits of the Red Army soldiers in memorials erected in a number of Polish cities, which are still visible today in the eyes of “Free Europe”, according to Navrutsky’s description.