Posted on 04/28/2007 1:13:14 PM PDT by lizol
Poland should also remove Soviet monuments - Katyn Committee
21:35 | 28/ 04/ 2007
WARSAW, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - The time has come to remove Soviet-era monuments in Poland, a Polish public organization said Saturday echoing the Estonian government's decision to remove the Bronze Soldier statue in central Tallinn.
The Katyn Committee which is made up of relatives of Polish officers, who were executed on the orders of the Soviet authorities in the village of Katyn near Smolensk in western Russia in 1940, said just like Estonia Poland "suffered from the Soviet occupation, while Soviet monuments have always been the symbol of slavery and lies, as well as Russian chauvinism."
"The Katyn Committee expresses solidarity with the sovereign government of Estonia and approves its decision to remove the Soviet monuments, sites of the 'Red' empire," the committee said in a statement Saturday. "We are indignant at Russian official statements threatening to cut off diplomatic ties with Estonia."
The committee said that Soviet monuments were used to popularize the idea of the Soviet Army as a liberator of nations. The organization said it was a shame that millions [of Polish zlotys] of taxpayers' money was still spent annually on the conservation and maintenance in Poland of 2,000 Soviet monuments.
In 1940, a few thousand Polish officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland were executed by NKVD officers, the forerunner for the KGB. The Soviet Union admitted the massacre in 1990.
Every nation has it’s superb scientists, Russia is not an exception actually, you can’t compare whole nation to a single person.
During my winter holidays in Zakopane I met some Russians, the girls were fantastic, very nice and pretty, fabulous. But guys were much worse then animals. I mean, what’s the sense in going to “Winter Capital of Poland” if you sit whole day in your room and get drunk? Actually I mean, get wasted and vomit on stairs!!!
Anyone has some numbers on alcoholism in Russia? I heard that it’s hell of a problem there.
PS. You were the one who called Soviet Union “warriors” in other thread? I can’t find it cause I’m laughing constantly when I think of it.
“Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor.”
Jozef Beck, 5.V.1939
It’s great to have Poland on our side. It means a lot to Estonians. Thank you, Poland!
Oh thank you. It looks like fun and I do support the Lions Club so this is great. I’ll get to see who wins best jackass. Bet it won’t be anyone I know. LOL.
No. Knock them all down. Having a statue of a Soviet General would be the same as having a statue of Rommel up.
Not a fair comparison, and yet also, sneering Rommel merely for being a General in the Wehrmacht is like sneering Lee for being a General for the Confederacy... Rommel was no Nazi, he even tried to kill Hitler. Military commanders are all to often divorced from the ideology of the nations/governments they serve...
Arrogance, ignorance and naivety in one. Interesting post, my congratulations.
You are blind in your nameless hate. Like it or not, but Russians are also human beings.
+ demagogy
I am really sorry, but intransigent people like you are the reason for centuries of war in Europe. This mentality is responsible for death and decay. I do not say that all precipices of Russia should be tolerated, on the other hand I (just as the rest of Europe) know that everything is a give and take. Narrow-minded dogmatism and hateful fanatism will move nothing. At least I will try to prevent that some other countries try to hide behind my own nation to push through their laughable BS because they are too weak on their own to do so. It is my impression that I am not alone. Large parts of western Europe are fed up with this “new” Europe.
It is true that western Europe was looking for new friends in the east, but in the long term we will not tolerate freeloaders. The price you -and others- have to pay for this policy is much higher than you may think. To admit any claim of our solidarity implys that we recognize your request. In this case (desecrating of graves in Estonia for pseudonational auto-erotic) I can assure you - nobody between river Neisse and the British coast will ever do that. This is Estonia’s and maybe your very own party.
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