The Polish Sejm (lower house of parliament) approved amendments to the law on decommunization permitting the demolition of monuments of the Soviet era. Over a year, more than 500 memorials will be demolished in the country.

Obelisks and sculptural groups, busts and monuments, memorials and memorial plates - everything that has to do with the communist period of the history of Poland, must disappear within a year. The lists of objects to be dismantled will be the authorities of voivodeships (administrative units). Just in case, they will have to be checked at the Institute of National Memory, an institution studying the activities of the USSR and Nazi Germany on the territory of Poland, Wiadomosci Onet reports on Thursday, June 22.

However, the Polish authorities are unlikely to make a mistake. According to the new legislative norm, which will come into force three months after publication, a year later, not only memorials glorifying the communist ideology will remain in Poland, but even allusions to it, for example, in the names of streets, bridges, squares, social institutions, schools and Other objects.

The only thing that the law did not touch was cemeteries - red stars decided not to disrupt the gravestones. As, however, and to withdraw Soviet symbols from home archives - the main thing is not to take it out for everyone.

The question of the demolition of Soviet monuments in Poland rose last year after the country adopted the law on decommunization on the initiative of the ruling party "Right and Justice", which, however, did not imply the mandatory destruction of historical monuments. Now the deputies decided to improve the case.

We note that the decision to demolish monuments in Warsaw was taken on June 22, the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in Russia. Today, a monument to Soviet prisoners of war was opened in Vienna, a memorial plaque and monument project was presented in the US state of North Carolina. And in Poland they cynically announced their intention to liquidate Soviet monuments, the good half of which are set in part of the Red Army soldiers.

At the same time, many citizens of the country do not agree with the actions of parliamentarians. On the initiative of local volunteers, two years later, restoration work was carried out on the border with Germany, destroyed by vandals, on the border with Germany, established in memory of the feat of fighters of the First Ukrainian Front: 40 thousand. Soldiers died in the winter of 1945. In the battles for the crossing of the Oder. Today the monument was inaugurated.

In Russia, the actions of the Polish Sejm were condemned. According to RIA Novosti, Elena Sutormina, chairman of the Public Chamber's commission for the development of public diplomacy, humanitarian cooperation and preservation of traditional values, has already sent the relevant appeal to the UN, an organization that was created after the Second World War and whose goal is to save humanity from repeating such tragedies.