Posted on 07/04/2015 7:14:38 PM PDT by MikeNJ
MOSCOW/WARSAW (Reuters) - Russia said on Saturday it was outraged by Poland's destruction of a Soviet war monument, warning Warsaw of the "most negative consequences" after what it said was a flagrant violation of an agreement between the two countries on protecting memorial sites.
Poland has been one of the most vocal critics of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014. Russia and Poland share a history of conflicts and the disagreement over war memorials is likely to add to tensions.
"Warsaw must finally understand that the 'war of monuments' unleashed in Poland may have the most negative consequences, for which the responsibility lies squarely with its initiators," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Authorities in the western Polish town of Nowa Sol took down the brotherhood-in-arms of Polish and Red Army soldiers memorial at the end of June, reducing it to a pile of rubble.
"The monument was large (dozen tonnes of concrete), ugly, always dirty with rust leaking out of the abyss of its emptiness, like blood or tears," Wadim Tyszkiewicz, Nowa Sol's mayor said on his Facebook profile earlier this week.
"FLAGRANT VIOLATION"
The Russian ministry described the Polish action as an "unfriendly move" and a "direct and flagrant" violation of a 1994 agreement between Poland and the Russian Federation on memorial sites.
"One gets an impression that the mockery of our memorial sites in Poland has been built into the state policy," the Russian ministry said.
Poland's foreign ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski told Reuters the move in Nowa Sol did not violate the agreement, which Poland believes only concerns cemeteries. Russia says it concerns all war memorials.
"Issues regarding monuments are within the competencies of relevant local authorities," Wojciechowski said.
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Russia needs to take up antiquity protection with ISIS, the Taliban and the other Jihadis.
Sorry if the 46 years of slavery behind the Iron Curtain doesn’t fill us with a sense of nostalgia.
I may not be able to pronounce the name But I do agree with Marcin Wojciechowsk
Russia thinks it still rules half the world. Maybe it does.
Russia needs to accept thats not the boss of eastern Europe no mo.
A great metaphor for Russia!
“Warsaw must finally understand that the ‘war of monuments’ unleashed in Poland may have the most negative consequences,.....”
Russia it seems must finally understand their bullying of their neighbor States may have the most negative consequences. I hope to live to see the day they get their asses kicked, and put in their place.
“Russia thinks it still rules half the world. Maybe it does.”
It does at least until we loose the half-breed imposter!
Holy gosh geewillikers! Russia is offended again!
Tear down all those freaking Red Army “memorials” from the Baltics to Berlin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH no!!! YES now I remember how t pronounce the name!
Freepers are among the SMARTEST people im the Nation BTW!
Thank you
The Estonians removed some similar Soviet memorial garbage from downtown Tallinn some years ago.
The local Russians got even drunker than usual, ran around with their red flags and looted a bunch of stores. One Russian drunk got stabbed to death by another Russian drunk.
I was going to discuss the Russian memorial for the Polish officers murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn Forest but then remembered that there isn’t one. Maybe the Poles remember that incident. Just sayin’.
Was he carrying a box full of Heineken in a flooded area?
invade and put it back up. then barry and kerry will whine about how that is inappropriate in the 21st century, and burst into tears.
I think the Poles should move it the the Katyn Forest. Then use it for civilian small arms practice.
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Pay back for The Katyn Forest massacre you Russkie bastards.
>>>”Russia thinks it still rules half the world. Maybe it does.”<<<
Russia doesn’t and knows it.
WE rule half the world; I mean the so-called “West” does.
Russia does Not have the means to project itself even half as much as the current “West” does across the world. It’s all in the West’s favor & those that made it so.
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