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Keep in mind this is the same country - Poland - that embarrassingly put its entire government on the same plane. It looks like they are doing the same thing on a larger scale, so to say. This is also the same country that has supported the Ukrainian movements who collaborated with the Nazis against Poland, fought against the Polish people, and said nothing when some of the million+ Ukrainian immigrants continued to spread the Bandera cult, and doing nothing against the Bandera monuments. But we digress.
The chairman of the upper house of the Russian parliament's international affairs committee, Konstantin Kosachev had this to say about the decision:
"The decision of the Polish Sejm, under which nearly 500 monuments, 'glorifying the totalitarian system,' will be demolished, including memorials in honor of the Red Army, is in itself absolutely in line with totalitarian practices. This is practiced either by modern barbarians like the Taliban [terrorist group, outlawed in Russia] and Ukrainian Nazis, or by the countries that turned anti-Russian hysteria into a permanent element of their domestic policy,".Poland has managed to effectively blank out the simple and unquestionable fact that if it wasn't for the Russian army Poland wouldn't occupy much space (if any) on the European map today. To the average Polish person, Russia = Communism, but if you ask someone how we ended up with communism in the first place you get a blank stare at best. The propaganda has done its job.
In contrast, Kosachev added that he had visited the Yad Vashem memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Jerusalem and the the Soviet War Memorial Tiergarten in Berlin, noting that Germany and Israel respect and honor the heroism and memory of the Red Army servicemen.
Sputnik reports:
The plan is to destroy all Soviet-era monuments across the country, except those erected at war graves. Russian observers fear that monuments erected at the sites of major battles will also be subject to demolition.Just imagine if the Polish government had the same attitude against Jews as they do against Russians. 80-85% of the first Soviet Union government was Jewish, but Poland insists on blaming everything on Russia as a country.
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Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the Sejm's decision was an "outrage" to the memory of the Soviet soldiers who fought and died in the fight to liberate Poland from Nazi occupation. An estimated 600,000 Red Army soldiers, along with tens of thousands of Polish patriots, died during the campaign to liberate Poland in 1944 and early 1945. Slutsky stressed that the decision was disrespectful not only to Russia, but to the "memory of the millions who gave their lives to free the world from the plague of fascism."
Naturally, the Russians aren't pleased.
Poland, Shatrov noted, has problems not only with its economy, but in its relations with the European Union, including thanks to the fact that Brussels has denied them their desired 'special, leading role' in Eastern Europe. "In order to explain away all of the mistakes and absurdities of their domestic policy, the country's leaders are trying to create a new state - to jettison everything that once united the country with Russia and with other states," he said.Poland has successfully managed to alienate itself not only from Russia but also from the EU. And looking at the Polish history over the last couple of hundred of years, it hasn't been much of a strong country on its own, therefore it will need a stronger party to stand by it. At the moment it doesn't look like anyone will be willing to take that role.
The problem stems actually from internal political struggles, and doesn't have much to do with Russia. There already was the law to demolish "relics and symbols of communism", but it wasn't respected by many local authorities, so some combatant unions (mainly "independent", i.e. anti-communist) and the likes were pressing for the changes, to toughen the law. When the current government was installed, it was only a matter of time, because these circles are the most ardent voter base. The symbols of communism are basically treated the same as symbols of nazism. The former governments are accused of leniency towards these symbols and the authorities who did not implement the law. And since their political parties are still a threat to the current government, it's an ideal platform to launch a political counter-offensive. That's the main reason, all other are just for decoration, or not nearly as important. The other, hidden reason may be that American masters just ordered the current parliament and government to do that to spite Russia, but this is also secondary from the point of view of the political geniuses currently at helm.
I'd also like to point, that the Germany-USSR treaty (Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) from August 1939 is widely considered a prerequisite to invasion of Poland, and USSR is seen as a second invader. And a second occupier, even longer lasting one, because the occupation ended only in 1989/1990 or so it is perceived. So if nazi symbols are prohibited, why not the communist ones? The rationale is that there wouldn't be a need to liberate Poland if it wasn't first invaded. Of course I find this tendency to remove parts of history abhorrent, but I also see the reasons these attempts are made for.