The monument to the Soviet-Polish fraternity of arms was demolished in the center of Czechowice Dziedzice in the south of Poland. Information about this appeared on the city information portal.
The monument was dismantled by the decision of the head of the region adopted on the basis of the law “On the prohibition of the propaganda of communism or another totalitarian system.”
Figures of the Soviet and Polish soldiers carrying the flag, removed from the pedestal to transport the closed territory to the local authorities belong.
A part of the locals performed in defense of the monument, offering to change the name on: “Monument to those who died at the fronts of the Second World War.” Petition that the monument has artistic value, they signed 215 people.
earlier in April reported that Poland’s authorities dismantled more than 420 Soviet monuments. In 1997, there were 561 monument on the territory of Poland, now they are left just over 100.
In July 2017, the President of Poland Angey Duda signed a new edition of the decamsmanization law, which provides for the dismantling of Soviet monuments throughout the country, including busts and memorable plates. The ban, which came into force in the fall of 2017, did not touch the cemetery and burial sites. In addition, it is envisaged to remove the communist elements from the names of schools, other social institutions, buildings, structures and objects of public domain, streets, bridges and squares.