Poland accounts for largest number of destroyed Soviet memorials — Defense Ministry
Starting in the 1990s, a number of European countries effectively embarked on a policy of destruction of the memory of the decisive role of the USSR in the victory against Nazism, the directorate head at the Defense Ministry noted
MOSCOW, February 18. /TASS/. Poland accounts for the largest number of destroyed memorials to Soviet warriors, 432 in total, said Valery Kudinsky, head of the Defense Ministry Directorate for Memorialization of the Fallen Soldiers Defending the Motherland.
Starting in the 1990s, a number of European countries effectively embarked on a policy of destruction of the memory of the decisive role of the Soviet Union and the Red Army in the victory against Nazism, Kudinsky pointed out during the Federation Council (parliament's upper house) roundtable on regulation of the legal status of military memorials.
"Military memorials are being demolished within the framework of anti-Russian campaigns. The most wide-scale dismantling and destruction of memorials of gratitude was registered in Poland, where 432 memorials to the Soviet warriors have already been dismantled," Kudinsky noted.
He also recalled the dismantling of the memorial to Marshal Ivan Konev in Prague in 2020. "The lack of a legal basis prevents the Russian side from thwarting such egregious facts of vandalism," the official said.