Inscriptions in red paint on the pedestal of one of the sculptures of the memorial complex at the cemetery-mausoleum of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 18The act of vandalism committed on May 11 in Gdansk against the monument to the soldiers of the Red Army causes indignation, but the truth about the Victory cannot be erased by barbaric actions, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. «Indignation was caused by an act of vandalism, it was committed on May 11 in Gdansk,» she said at a briefing. According to her, on the graves of the soldiers of the Red Army who died during the liberation of the city, «the attackers tore out or damaged 20 stars from the monument.» «The nature of this trick is not leaves no doubt: mockery of the memory of the dead has firmly entered the arsenal of Polish political provocateurs,» she noted. Zakharova noted that «this is part of the conscious campaign of official Warsaw to desecrate everything that is sacred to all those who fought the» brown plague » According to her, this is not the first such case.She believes that these actions are «evidence of an unbridled Russophobic company unleashed by the Polish authorities «Warsaw has embarked on the path of state vandalism in relation to the memory of the fallen Soviet wars, which saved Poland, let me remind you, from fascist destruction,» added the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The monument to Soviet soldiers suddenly disappeared from the Estonian cemetery. She emphasized that «the truth about the Victory with their barbaric actions and dirty looting … cannot be eradicated, we will not allow it.»
