Poland is one of the countries that suffered most from the Nazis. The Soviet Union paid 600 thousand lives for its liberation but Soviet war monuments in Poland are constantly vandalized.

In the past three years 14 war memorials were destroyed by the Polish authorities and 64 ones suffered from vandals in Poland. Many of the latter were installed at the mass graves of the Soviet soldiers.

In October 2016 the Polish Senate initiated the amendments to the law of April 1, 2016 on the prohibition of propaganda of communism or any other totalitarian ideology which is better known as the “Law on decommunisation”. On April 21, 2016 the Senate adopted the last version of the document and passed it to the Sejm for consideration. These amendments of the Polish legislation are aimed to skin the public sphere from the ideologically inconvenient symbols.

The attacks against Soviet military memorials are accompanied by propaganda campaigns to falsify the history of the XX century. The Russian Federation has constantly raised the issue on different international fora and stressed that historical revanchism is illegal and risky.

We hope that the official vandalism will be stopped.