Russians can go blank themselves on this one.
*cough* Katyn *cough*
*ping*
They tried to subjugate them as slaves of ethnic russians and not for their liberation.
I’m so sick of Russians and their thug boss. They’re obnoxious in whatever country they exist.
Put them on flatbeds and send them back to Russia.
Outrageous.
“Liberate”?
Not even close.
Just replaced Nazis with Communists.
Even if USSR didn’t occupy Poland for 50+ years,they “Liberated” Poland for self interest reasons not altruistic ones.
Screw ‘em.
They did a great job liberating Poland from the Polish in 1939.
To be fair, the Russians lost a lot of people fighting the Nazis including in Poland. But then they became almost as bad if not worse than the Nazis in Poland. Basically, the Polish got killed, raped, and otherwise abused by both the Russians and the Nazis.
To sum up: Hey Poland, do what you want to do. Screw the Russian objections.
US will see similar problems in France once the Islamic majority wants to remove graves of fallen American servicemen.
Send them back to Russia for safekeeping.
Or else ?
But what do the soviets say?... oh, there is no Soviet Union. But bye
Dig up the six hundred thousand and send them back
Witold Pilecki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki
I’m going to take an opposition view on this.
After watching many of my Southern heritage being tore down by antifa types and lesser men(Democratic mayors) I say take it case by case.
I actually looked up(horrors) the images of some of these statues and , for the most part, they look like memorials of the common Soviet soldier.
these statues
I would De-Commify(likie De Nazify) these statues by removing the red star and hammer and sycle but leave them standing, especially if they are on former historic battlegrounds.
The sacrifice of these men are noteworthy even if they served an evil empire.
There’s no changing history and ignoring it is stupid.
Just my opinion.
The Soviets murdered over 20,000 at Katyn alone after they invaded a weakened Poland at the beginning of World War II. Despite promises from the French and British, neither did anything substantive in response to the invasion by the Communists.
I recall that the Reds were responsible for at least 1 million Polish deaths.