Amendments to the law on prohibition of propaganda of communism, which include the demolition of Soviet monuments in Poland, will not lead to the elimination of the burial places of red Army soldiers in public places. About it RIA Novosti on Friday, July 21, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Republic.
“It is necessary to clearly emphasize that the law does not apply to cemeteries and other burial places of the Soviet military. Therefore, the purpose of the law, and especially its update is not a desecration of the memory of battles and soldiers of the red Army who lost their lives in battles on the territory of Poland,” the Ministry said.
As explained by Warsaw, the main purpose of the amendment was the break with the Communist symbols. The Soviet regime “has brought a lot of sacrifice and sufferings of both Polish and Russian people,” said the foreign Ministry. On the causes of changes in the law on de-communization, the Polish Ambassador in Moscow informed the state Duma and the Russian foreign Ministry.
The amendments were approved July 17 by the President of Poland Andrew Duda. The document States that monuments should not honor people, organizations, events or dates that advocate communism or any other totalitarian regime. However, a number of exceptions-for example, monuments and obelisks that are set in cemeteries or other places of burial. The new rules will enter into force three months after publication of the decree.
In Moscow the actions of the Warsaw offensive and promised not to leave them without consequences. It is expected that the decision of the Polish authorities might condemn the Israeli Parliament. Against the background of these news, the Russian defense Ministry also published materials devoted to the events of the red army’s liberation of Poland from Nazi occupation.