Warsaw: The last vestiges of communist rule in Poland were destroyed. Four memorials to Polish Red Army soldiers have been demolished by the current administration. The monuments were built during the communist era. Officials said they were removing symbols of Russian hegemony in Poland and condemning Russia’s war on Ukraine. Monuments erected in 1945 in four different areas of Poland were removed using bulldozers, drills and machines. It was built as a memorial to the Red Army soldiers who died in the war against Nazi Germany. The head of the State Historical Institute, Carol Nawrocki, came forward and demanded that the monuments be removed as reminders of the system of enslaving and murdering their own people and other countries. A monument of shame stands. Nawrocki said they are a monument to the contempt of the victors over the victims. The Soviets did not bring liberation in 1945. They brought another form of slavery. Nawrocki also noted that they occupied and looted Poland.
