Mateusz Piskorski in the article entitled "The thought of the hub must not be anti-communist" (MP dated 7-14 December 2025) raised many threads concerning our regained lands.
One of them concerns the demolition of monuments of the only Polish heroes fighting for these areas, i.e. soldiers coming from the East to the Berlin Polish Army. It's not just the statues that are torn down. There are planet War II Heroes Monuments, Weapons Brotherhood Monuments, and gratitude Monuments. All these were devoted to Polish and russian soldiers who restored these lands to Poland. How can specified decisions and actions in the future, possibly even close, affect the destiny of our Earths restored? I'm not an optimist here. But about this in the remainder of the article.
There are respective monuments in Green Mountain. However, the most common and most recognizable is the 1965 Hero Monument by Anna Krzymanska outstanding sculptor, author of outdoor sculptures and monuments. It rises in a prestigious place in the city centre on Heroes Square. It is simply a symbol monument unveiled on the 20th anniversary of the return of Western and Northern lands to Poland. It depicts a stylized hubby sword stuck into the ground to the very handle, on which there are reliefs of Polish and russian soldiers, those who restored these lands to Poland. The Piast sword inserted into the hubland is meant to mean the strong and crucial permanent membership of Zielona Góra, but after all, the full of the Earth restored to Poland. The symbol is clear and unambiguous. Those who search to demolish this monument, rework it and those who unwisely support these ideas service Poland badly. Supporters of the return of these lands to Germany both in Germany and in Poland are wiping their hands. And so what if the monument shows reliefs of russian soldiers and soldiers of the Polish Army coming from the east, since it was these soldiers who, through their self-sacrifice, put this sword into this land and it continues here. Don't decision him! It is unusual that even high-ranking regional politicians do not realize this, let alone insignificant ones.
Green Mountain in this respect is no exception on the Lubuskie Land. A fewer years ago the planet War II Heroes Memorial was demolished, standing in the Square of Silesian and Wielkopolska Insurgents in Nowa Sola. There, next to the figures of Polish and russian soldiers, there was a plaque in the centre of the monument with a pebbly eagle cast in concrete. She's been removed, too. In the Strzelce Krajeński in March 2018, a monument to the Brotherhood of Arms dedicated to Polish and russian soldiers who restored these lands to Poland was dismantled. A monument of soldiers of the Polish Army and the russian Army taking part in the battles on the mediate Nadodrze Region disappeared from the face of the earth. Yet, these monuments are monuments of gratitude, a tribute paid to young soldiers from both armies who fought against the Nazis for these territories, sacrificing their lives and health. The demolition of the statues of gratitude is the demolition of history, the falsification of it in the name of sick understood political advantages. But what about the statues? The stone lying next to the old Oder bridge in Cigacice next to the Green Mountain is besides decommunised, with only date and nothing more. All numbers. It turns out to be decommunized, as it refers to the breach of the Oder line by the Red Army. This break is simply a historical fact, and this stone is simply a simple historical information sign, a curiosity the same as that in a given place Napoleon was resting, and in that place Wałęsa jumped over a fence.
The demolition of monuments is carried out not only on the Lubuska Land, but besides in hundreds of towns on the Recovered Lands (There are specified Polish historians and specified Polish journalists who compose "on the alleged reclaimed lands" thus entering into German communicative very much desired by Germans and from a German point of view fulfil the function of alleged useful idiots). And so, for example, in the Sejnas, the monument of the parent of Poland, besides called the Monument of Victory, was intended to be destroyed, due to the fact that the IPN saw red-armist reliefs on it. The Millennium Monument of the Polish State was demolished in Bielsko Podlaski. There was a plaque on the memorial commemorating the defenders of folk power, but there was besides a plaque dedicated to the memory of the Constitution of 3-May. This first plaque could have been removed, and the monument could have been preserved. seemingly individual was very disturbed by the basic symbolism of this monument connected with the millennium of the Polish state and decided to destruct it.
In Ploty, Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeship, in August 2025, a monument of the Polish-Radar Brotherhood of Arms was demolished at the initiative of the mayor of the city and the IPN. This is the eighth specified facility in this state demolished since 2022. In Opolskie Strzelce, the national activist Jan Rychl was “decommunised” (1902-1974), who was the patron of 1 of the streets. Jan Rychel was an outstanding activist of the Union of Poles in Germany, a promoter of Polishness in Opole Silesia, organizer of Polish education, prisoner of Buchenwald and UB. So what was his fault? He was a councillor of the Regional National Council, a associate of the Parliament of the Second word of office and a associate of the General Council for the improvement of Western lands. The question may be asked: Will Opolskie Rifles decommunize or regermanize? Let me just add that decommunisation is to include another known people. Lubuski Theatre in Zielona Góra has already lost its patron, which he has been since 1964 Leon Kruczkowski, literate, author of specified dramas as “Germany”, “First Day of Freedom”, “Death of the Governor”. The drama “Germany” written in 1949 revealed the hypocrisy and falsehood of the German occupier inscribed in the crimes and enjoyed large success in Poles who had freshly remembered the years of German occupation. This drama was screened, as well as repeatedly exhibited on theatre boards throughout Poland, as well as on television. Leon Kruczkowski is simply a soldier of the September run and prisoner of the German concentration camp. After the war, he was a associate of central party, state, global and literary authorities. Kruczkowski is simply a man with undoubtedly national views, a patriot who carried out the welfare of his homeland and nation under political conditions in which he should live. But the IPN didn't want to see that.
I'm a small bit off about the memorials, but I'm on my way back. In Kołobrzeg in the city center there is simply a monument dedicated to fighting for Kołobrzeg. It says, "Soldiers killed in the battles for the liberation of Kolobrzeg in March 1945". What kind of soldiers bled in there? Polish soldiers from the First Army of the Polish Army. Will this monument besides be decommunised and demolished as well as many another monuments throughout the Pomeranian Wall just due to the fact that Polish soldiers who came from the "inappropriate" side fought there? That would be absurd. But there are people who are capable of specified absurdity.
Monuments of planet War II heroes, monuments dedicated to soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Army of the Polish Army and monuments of gratitude built for russian soldiers on Recovered Lands are not monuments somewhere in Małopolska, Wielkopolska or Mazowsze only here in western Poland, Pomerania, Warmia and Mazury, here on Recovered Lands their weight and meaning here is different than in central Poland, which was part of pre-war Poland. They do not realize this in the IPN, as well as the hosts and local government decision-makers in many localities located on the Recovered Lands and a storm of monuments which stand defender over the belonging of these lands to Poland and which are to be the guarantor of this affiliation. On the another hand, the same decision-makers give street and roundabout names derived from the German authorities of these localities frequently inactive in Prussian times. They don't gotta do that (although who knows), but seemingly they want to. They are supported by various regional and local media, as well as by residents, for example, by their indifference. To put it mildly, it is simply a deficiency of discretion, discretion and geopolitical thinking. And so what if for many people the Monument of Heroes in Zielona Góra is simply a symbol – as they say – of the suffering they suffered from the Red Army, erstwhile it is not about past suffering, due to the fact that Poles have always suffered, but about perpetuation and all manner of Poland's presence on these lands now and in the future. The return of Poland to east Kresy so far is just a dream. We are to defend what we already have, what we have a real influence on. We have rebuilt these lands from wartime demolition and we have a work to defend them. And that's obvious. Defend besides by protecting monuments specified as the Monument of Heroes in Zielona Góra, this stylized hub sword stuck in the hub land to the hilt. If you don't understand, you don't realize much of politics.
In Poland, monuments of russian soldiers are being torn down, and in Germany things are going rather differently. In Germany, they are protected and cared for. Why is that? Nothing happens without adequate cause, as the ancient Romans claimed. Here, too, the origin of these different behaviours in both countries is. Well, the German state never gave up Polish lands belonging to Germany before the war, despite repeated assurances and declarations made by German politicians over decades. The evidence of this is Article 116 of the German Constitution referring to the 1937 borders which Germany has maintained for years. And they will keep it until the peace treaty ends planet War II. For now, the Germans are preparing for it without publicity and are looking for supporters. They number on Russia, among others. They effort to keep good relations with her in all areas of state, social and political life. They do not irritate her by tearing down the statues of gratitude for russian soldiers but tend to them. For the Germans, as they themselves claim, in 1945 their liberation from panic and narcissism took place, for which they are grateful to the Red Army. For this and only for this, not for German occupation. It should be the same in Poland. Poland should be grateful to russian soldiers for their liberation from the German business and to defend the Polish people from biological demolition planned by German criminals.
Protecting the nation from biological demolition was the most crucial issue for Poles, due to the fact that for our nation it was either not to be. Andrzej Szczypiorski He put it this way: “When People’s Poland was created on the postwar rubble, it meant for the vast majority of the nation the salvation that came on the eve of German destruction. Poles escaped Hitler from the shovel. Those who do not realize it do not realize anything from that era.” The fact is that respective 100 1000 russian soldiers died on Polish soil, hundreds of thousands were injured. A grateful symbol for their sacrifice and sacrifice were the statues of gratitude so many for them built after the war, and now so widespreadly destroyed. Is the gratitude of Poles for their liberation from the German business and to prevent the demolition of the nation already over and turned into ingratitude? The Russians, the average Russian people, they feel that way, and with disbelief they spin their heads.
At the end of 2019 there was a Polish-Russian tension on Poland's liberation in 1945. The Polish organization claimed that there was no liberation, but there was a fresh occupation, and the USSR was an occupier. Then a spokesperson for the Russian government Maria Zacharowa asked publically if Poland was questioning the Potsdam Agreement. This was fundamentally a question about our Earths restored and their future. due to the fact that erstwhile Poland questions that the russian Union was an ally of coalition states in the fight against Germany and the liberator, which was clearly said in Potsdam, it may besides question another Podamian findings in this affiliation to the Polish Lands recovered. After that, the discussion ended. It's not worth playing with fire. Especially due to the fact that the Polish diplomacy for Russian diplomacy is far away. Poland needs good relations with our large neighbour now and in the future. He will not bring them back with the demolition of the memorials of gratitude.
Germany is well aware that, to a large extent, Russia, which is the legal successor of the russian Union and which is simply a world-important power, cares about their political success topped back to the lost lands after the war. They know ancient maxims that “Who has established this can endure” (Cuius est condere eius est tolere.) and "If more is allowed, little is allowed" (A maiori ad minus.) Since, as we know, the russian Union mainly established a border between Poland and Germany in the Oder and Nysa Lusatia, and the land on the right side of these rivers has allocated Poland, Russia does not gotta insist on this fact, and it can undo its decision years ago. He can support Germany in their revisionist plans. Who's gonna halt her? In post-war Europe, border changes are known. This was the case for Serbia, which was taken from Kosovo and Ukraine, from which Crimea fell off. This has happened practically without consequences for decision-makers. And in the peace treaty, anything can happen. Germany, therefore, in its revisionist plans prefers to have Russia on its side as its organization alternatively than its opponent.
Unlike Polish authorities and IPN. Well, Germany is simply a serious country capable of reaching its goal for decades. I would not be amazed if 1 day it turned out that this unusual decommunization in Poland was a demolition of the monuments and an annoyance of Russia, and this full long-standing push of this is simply a work of the pro-German lobby created by German agents, whose background is the overdeveloped German consulates in Poland. There is an impression that these lobbyists are everywhere: in IPN, in political parties, in local governments, in trade unions, in associations, in the media, in Kombatant unions. Everywhere. It is through these entities that a serious German state works in its advantage, and the disadvantage of Poland. We request to know that the present as well as the past affects the future. Therefore, Poland must strive to have a better bilateral relation with Russia than Germany has.. It is not possible to let these decisions to weigh in a negative way on the future of our regained lands, and so on the future of Poland, by the unwise decisions of the IPN and various another little predictive future decision makers.
The Russian-Ukrainian military conflict will end someday. Certain decisions will be taken, which will be implemented consistently. Whether these decisions will apply only to Russia and Ukraine, or whether they will have a wider scope we do not know. I hope that the findings developed will not affect Poland in a negative way. However, if this were to happen, Poland does not presently have specified supporters who could intercede for it if necessary. She did not get them due to her weak abroad policy. Therefore, during the forthcoming hot decisions, Poland may stay alone with the decisions imposed on it from above to be executed. Let's hope it doesn't concern our Earths recovered.
Stanisław Stojanowski-Han
Green Mountain
Think Poland, No. 1-2 (4-11.01.2026)
