Worthless Monument War

Z Polish War Cemetery in Mednoje the reliefs from Order of Virtuti Militari and Ka slaughter of the September Campaign. They were replaced by portraits of russian leaders Joseph Stalin and Felix Dzierżyński. I'm very sorry about that. It's truly bad. But it was completely predictable.

Minister for abroad Affairs Radosław Sikorski said: ‘This is unacceptable. (...) We will defend these crosses due to the fact that we do not accept Russian historical lies.” The Ministry of abroad Affairs posted a message on the X portal saying: “We received with concern the information of the Polish Embassy in Moscow about the demolition of the Polish monument at the War Cemetery in Miednoje. We powerfully request from the Russian side the immediate restoration of the first cemetery."

In 2023 in “Polish Thoughts” I wrote: “Over the last year 28 monuments were demolished in Poland, which commemorated russian soldiers. It is hard to realize this dintojera of soldiruchs, even if it is to manifest the reluctance of the rulers to the current actions of the Russian Federation. And for 3 fundamental reasons.

First of all, the monuments commemorate russian soldiers, not only Russian soldiers – i.e. Ukrainians fighting Germany. Secondly, in the Red Army about 220,000 Poles served in various periods. In 1943, about 25,000 Poles from the Red Army joined the ranks of the 1st Army of the Polish Army. I met, for example, a soldier of Antoni Jodkiewicz's Border defender Corps. He wore alongside Polish awards the Order of the Red Flag or the Patriotic War. Thirdly, it is simply a complete madness to remove the monuments, those soldiers who fought the 3rd Reich in the lands recovered and captured for Poland. This is simply a kind of depolonisation."

The problem is not just about monuments commemorating russian soldiers. Monuments dedicated to soldiers of the Polish Army (WP), the interior safety Corps (CWB) and the Civic Militia (MO) have been removed in fresh years. They fought with the UPA bandits. I know cases where the memorials on which the soldiers were besides commemorated were destroyed National Army (Josephs) Was there a sign Polish Fighting organization and inscription Polish Socialist Party (Pabianice). Finally, self-appointed anti-communism Hussars with Adam Straw They destroyed the monument. Sigismund Berling. The man about whom the icon of Polish anti-communism Stefan Kisielewskiand wrote: “I am always outraged by the memories of emigration officers or politicians being humiliated or insulted by General Berling. After all, the fact that he, of the legional origin of the formation, remained in Russia and was able to find a common language with the communists, for Poland is more political and applicable than the activities of the most heroic Polish officers in the West."

Monuments on lands called regained and conquered by Poles were removed and further removed. It hurts us, above all, Poles who realize the importance of these lands for our nation and country. The elimination of these monuments is simply a manifest madness and entering a long forgotten communicative of German nationalities. I remember precisely that this was the case, for example, in the case of Szczecin (The Died in the Fight for Liberation of Dąbia), Głubczyc (The Red Army Monument commemorating 676 soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Front, who died in fighting for the city of Leobschütz), Koszalin (The triumph Monument) or Olsztyn (The Warmia and Mazury Land Liberation Monument). In the last case, the conflict to last the monument continues.

Soviet and Soviet-Polish monuments, among others, in Warsaw, Money, Tucholski Borach, Lidzbark Warmiński, verbally, Goleniów, Stargard, Drawsko Pomorski, White Bora, Lesznie, Zabrze, Piekarach Śląski, Czeladz, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Jaworznie, Dębica, Łańcut, Opole, White, Głogoku ... and I could do so long. More memorial sites were removed. Sometimes ritual events were performed, where the head of the National Memorial Institute was present Dr. Karol Nawrocki. This was during the demolition of the monument of the Kombatants of the Republic of Poland in the Square of Freedom in Nowogard. A Slavic war will be shattered on the sidewalk for a long time. Today's Polish presidential candidate supported by the Law and Justice said: “Enough russian propaganda facilities in Poland. In a free, independent and democratic country that fulfils its obligations towards the past and the future. present we implement Polish law – the Act of 2016. Long live free and independent Poland!”

On the 80th anniversary of the triumph over Nazi Germany on 9 May 2025, the environment from the CODE and the most fanatical supporters of the Polish presidential candidate on behalf of the Civic Platform Rafał Trzaskowski vulgarly disturbed the laying flowers in the cemetery of russian soldiers in Warsaw. 1 widely known for all the protests, the old woman was walking around with her shoes on a monument at the cemetery. The Russian flag was trampled. Those who prayed for the fallen soldiers of old and sick were ridiculed. Can't anyone in the government truly see that? Do no of them realize the consequences of this kind of action?

I watched it with disgust and sadness. I don't like mindless and ephecy in politics. In 2023, after the liquidation of another russian monument, I wrote: “Such actions have meaning and consequences in global politics. The Polish side must realise this. Polish monuments in Russia and Belarus are already being abolished. It's a reaction to these actions. A monument commemorating the persecuted and murdered Poles from 1937 to 1952 was abolished in Lewasów close Petersburg. Prior to that, the plaques commemorating Polish citizens in the Tomsk Oblast were missing, and a monument to murdered Poles in Piwowaricha close Irkutsk. I think they are going to have many akin sad events – including the liquidation of the monument dedicated to the air accident in Smolensk. And then don't give God, truly crucial monuments for Poles, specified as Katyn and Mednoje.”

Unfortunately, it's come to this. It is besides worth writing about affirmative things. In Cansk, Siberia a year ago in 2024, a monument of Polka was renovated Angel the Bow. Aniela Krzywoń is simply a sybiara, a soldier of the 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division, the first Pole to receive the title of Hero of the russian Union. The only female awarded the title, who was not a citizen of the russian Union. She was and remained Polish. She came from a Catholic household of patriotic traditions. Her father Tadeusz, fought in the Legions as well as in the Polish-bolshevik War (1919-1920). In 1940, the Krzywoni household was deported into the USSR, to the village of Jakutino in the area of Szytkina in the Irkutsk Oblast. Later, the household was moved to Kańska, Krasnoyarski, where Aniela began her work – initially in wood manufacture plants, and then as a miller in arms plants. On 29 May 1943, she joined the Polish Army formed in the USSR, where she was assigned to the 2nd company of physicists, 1st Independent Female Battalion. During the conflict of Lenino Aniela, they were assigned to the Staff Protection Unit of the 1st Infantry Division, with the task of protecting the truck with staff documents. A car hit by a German air bomb went up in flames. Aniela Krzywoń, despite the flames and shelling of the enemy, saved a box of papers and 2 wounded from the truck, and herself died in a fire. She was 18. Buried in the Polish military cemetery in Lenino. Decorated with the Silver Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari.

A fewer years ago, I passed with Mirosław Zygmunt through the cemetery in Sosnowiec – Zagórz at Zuzanny Street. There is simply a grave with a plaque saying, “There are 64 heroes of the Red Army who died in the area for the freedom of the Polish people.” An old nun tried to clean it up. I looked at friendships, she said something like, “there in the russian Union were their mothers, engaged, wives. They were young boys. War is bad.” She was cleaning up again.

I hope that the memorials of fallen russian soldiers in Poland and monuments of murdered Poles in Russia will be rebuilt. russian monuments despite the hard past stand in countries with civilized governments, for example, in Austria or Hungary. I'd like people juggling Catholic slogans like Dr. Karol Nawrocki remind them of the “Send to the Peoples of Poland and Russia” president of the Polish Archbishop’s Episcopal Conference Joseph Michalik and the Head of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarch and the full Russia Cyril I of 2012. I powerfully hope, at the end of the war in Ukraine and normalisation of relations with east neighbours. I hope average comes back.

Łukasz Jastrzębski