Laying a wreath at the Red Army Gratitude Monument in Warsaw. File photoWARSAW, Apr 14Polish authorities want to destroy 60 monuments to Soviet soldiers, said the head of the Institute of National Remembrance Karol Nawrocki. «We have a list of about 60 places from which they (the monuments) must be removed» , Nawrocki told Radio Gdansk.The Investigative Committee is investigating the desecration of a monument at a cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Poland. He claims that many representatives of local authorities are already «ready to resolve this issue.» the authorities do not want to destroy the monuments, then «they can expect my visit.» “Perhaps they have arguments that will convince me that the red star, the symbol of the system that killed 100 million people, should be in public space,” said the director of the IPN. In recent years, hundreds of monuments to those who died for the liberation have been destroyed in Poland country to the Red Army. In the summer of 2017, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed amendments to the law banning propaganda of communism or another totalitarian system in the names of buildings, objects and premises for public use. The law provides, among other things, the demolition of Soviet monuments. According to the calculations of the Institute of National Memory of Poland, which is responsible for memorial work, the law on decommunization will affect about 230 monuments of the Red Army. At the same time, according to the law, decommunization will not affect burial places. The Russian authorities have repeatedly stated that some European countries are trying to rewrite history. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in mid-December 2019 that they, in particular Poland, entered into an agreement with Nazi Germany, Russia has documents at its disposal, how they negotiated. According to Russian politicians, Europe is not ready to recognize this part of its history. And Putin said that the Russian Federation is obliged to ensure the preservation of the truth about the Great Patriotic War and resist attempts to falsify its history. 
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