Post by Bonobo on Mar 29, 2018 23:55:11 GMT 1
and make Russians angry. The removal of monuments to Soviet army soldiers in Poland is one of the main reasons for Polish Russian animosity. Russians view it as barbarism.
Example:
Monument to general Czerniachowski was dismantled in 2015. Russians protested vehemently but Poles claimed he was an occupant who introduced the stalinist regime into Poland and contributed to the liquidation of Polish underground organisation by NKWD.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chernyakhovsky
Arrest of Polish anti-Nazi resistance in Wilno
July 17, 1944, as part of a covert operation aimed at disarming Armia Krajowa (AK), Chernyakhovsky, along with the General Ivan Serov, sent by the NKVD, held talks with the leadership of the Wilno Branch of the AK. Under the false pretenses of discussing the further fight against the Nazis, Polish resistance officers were invited to a briefing in the headquarters of the Belarusian People's Front. The meeting was attended by Polish resistance officers Lt. Col. Aleksander Krzyżanowski, nom de guerre "Wolf", and the Chief of Staff Major Teodor Cetys, codename "Fame". Both were immediately disarmed and arrested. On the same day in the village of Bogusze, a similar meeting was announced to brief commanders of other Polish partisan units in the presence of both Krzyżanowski and Chernyakhovsky. However the 'briefing' ended with the disarming and arrest of the Polish officers by the NKVD. In this period, up to 8,000 Polish resistance fighters were arrested. They were either press-ganged into the Soviet Army, sent to the Gulag, or executed.[1]
Russian diplomats still come to the site to celebrate their hero.
Example:
Monument to general Czerniachowski was dismantled in 2015. Russians protested vehemently but Poles claimed he was an occupant who introduced the stalinist regime into Poland and contributed to the liquidation of Polish underground organisation by NKWD.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chernyakhovsky
Arrest of Polish anti-Nazi resistance in Wilno
July 17, 1944, as part of a covert operation aimed at disarming Armia Krajowa (AK), Chernyakhovsky, along with the General Ivan Serov, sent by the NKVD, held talks with the leadership of the Wilno Branch of the AK. Under the false pretenses of discussing the further fight against the Nazis, Polish resistance officers were invited to a briefing in the headquarters of the Belarusian People's Front. The meeting was attended by Polish resistance officers Lt. Col. Aleksander Krzyżanowski, nom de guerre "Wolf", and the Chief of Staff Major Teodor Cetys, codename "Fame". Both were immediately disarmed and arrested. On the same day in the village of Bogusze, a similar meeting was announced to brief commanders of other Polish partisan units in the presence of both Krzyżanowski and Chernyakhovsky. However the 'briefing' ended with the disarming and arrest of the Polish officers by the NKVD. In this period, up to 8,000 Polish resistance fighters were arrested. They were either press-ganged into the Soviet Army, sent to the Gulag, or executed.[1]
Russian diplomats still come to the site to celebrate their hero.
