[Rashputin]

Let the French start tearing up US cemeteries from the First and Second World Wars and see how much flack they get from the US. The issue is the same with the focus by Western media on the few Lenin statues the distraction. The real issue is the memorials to WWII Russian troops coming down. Lenin statues are an issue for a small, vocal, well connected to Western media, faction.

So, no one but you and your mommy are real Christians, right?

Sorry Charlie, only the best tuna can sucker FR readers with their troll BS.

[GoldenState_Rose]

Why should countries be forced to honor their former Soviet or Nazi boccupiers and idols of such poisonous ideologies? Cemetaries were untouched to my understanding.

Meanwhile Putin condemns Gulag archivists to punitive psychiatric treatment.

Defend the USSR and the KGB servants to its dead empire all you want, but stop insulting the Christian faith in the process.

[Krosan]

You’re really out there. Do you seriously believe that Freepers think Poland removing these thousands of Lenin statues a totalitarian evil invader installed there is in any way similar to the hypothetical desecration of US war graves in France?

I don’t think you believe something that stupid. I think you’re shamelessly telling a lie.

[Cronos]

1. No one in the Baltic states or Central Europe is talking about tearing down Soviet soldiers graves
2. You're right it's not about Lenin status but rather about memorials to Soviet actions in WWI
3. But the thing is that for many (Czechs excepted), the Soviet defeat of Germany was NOT a liberation (like how western Europe was liberated by British, American and other troops), rather it was
   • For countries that fought on the side of the Allies (well, only Poland) - it was a different occupation - a bit less bloody than the German, but still an occupation until 1990
   • for countries that fought on the side of Germany (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria), an occupation
   • For Baltic states - the return of the old nightmare. They had been occupied by Russia in the 1700s and 1800s and had undergone intense attempts at Russification.

   I can speak for Poland that people don't mind the gravesites for the brave Soviet soldiers who died) but they don't want to see a monument that talks about "the Liberation of Poland by her Soviet brothers" or communist motifs talking about how Poland was saved by the USSR.