It's related to this very recent event...
Russia threatens Poland over dismantling Soviet monument
Yahoo! ^ | 2015-09-18 | AP
Posted on 9/18/2015, 8:42:08 PM by WhiskeyX
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — In a new dispute exposing the complexity of Poland's relations with Russia, Moscow is threatening Warsaw with "most serious consequences" for dismantling a monument to a Soviet World War II general.
The removal of the 1970s memorial to Gen. Ivan Chernyakhovsky began Thursday in the northern town of Pieniezno, where the general died of wounds in February 1945. He is buried in Russia.
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Poland has not been an independent state for that long. They were part of Germany and the Russian Empire.
Russia views all land that was once part of their empire, as Holy Russian Soil. In their iconography, they are the Third Rome.
This also means they will exert influence on the West Coast of North America if they can.