The monument "The Volyn's Sculpture" in Domastawa was devastated by unknown perpetrators. Based on the monument, a red-black flag was painted and the inscription in Cyrillic "The Fame of UPA". Police are conducting intensive activities to find the circumstances of the demolition and identify the perpetrators. The monument by Andrzej Pityński was unveiled in July 2024.
The police were informed of the demolition of the monument on Thursday. How she gave the horseshoes. It worked, and there's inactive police officers working on the scene from the investigation and investigation squad who are securing the tracks.
"We are doing intensive activities to explain how this demolition happened and who did it" - added a police representative. The red-black flag symbolizes the conflict for Ukrainian independency and was used, among another things, by the CNS-B/UPA.
Controversial monument 20 meters high
The monument "Wolyńska Sculpture" was unveiled in July 2024. The bronzed sculpture depicts an eagle whose body is in flames, and the wings contain the names of the towns whose inhabitants were slaughtered by UPA.
In the mediate of the monument there is simply a cut cross, and in it three-tooth forks on which the child's body is loaded. At the base of the monument on 1 side is simply a household with children in flames, and on the another side - besides in flames - children's heads are loaded on fences.
Long Search for a Place for a Monument
Because of its drastic pronunciation, the monument evokes utmost emotions. For a long time he could not find his place, many towns did not want to put it on their territory.
Monument rejected: Rzeszów, Toruń, Jelenia Góra and Stalowa Wola. As a result, the monument, along with a plinth of 20 metres high, stood on the Via Carpatia way in the area of Domostawa in the territory of Nikansk.
Differences in historical memory
Poland and Ukraine have for many years different memories of the function of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgency Army. UPA in 1943-1945 committed genocide cultural cleansing on about 100,000 Polish men, women and children.
While it was a crime of genocide for the Polish side, it was a consequence of a symmetrical armed conflict for Ukrainians, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, Ukrainians want to view the CNS and UPA exclusively as anti-Soviet organizations, not anti-Polish ones.
(PAP) Note: This article was edited with Artificial Intelligence.
