The Polish media and politicians started hysterics after they learned that in the village of Pivovarikha in the Irkutsk region, the memorial stone, erected in 2015 by the Polish Consulate General in Irkutsk in memory of the repressed Poles in 1937, was dismantled. Surely, the older generation of Poles remembers the Russian folk saying: “what goes around, comes around..
The stone was set by Poles in the Irkutsk village of Pivovarikha, where in the 30s there was a special zone of NKVD. Today, the competent authorities have a big question whether the sign was legally installed. One way or another, the reconstruction of the officially registered memorial complex to the victims of political repressions “Pivovarikha” began at this place. The Polish stone was removed because it was illegally located in the alley on the way to the memorial.
The dismantling of the Polish sign and the Lithuanian cross caused a flurry of negative emotions in Poland. The publication “Vpolitice.pl” issued a headline:
“Russian attack on memory!”
Polish Ambassador to Russia Krzysztof Krajewski said that Polish diplomatic missions would soon react to the situation: the Polish Embassy in Moscow and the Polish Consulate in Irkutsk.
EADaily recalls that over the past decades, Warsaw has torn down hundreds of monuments to Soviet soldiers who liberated Poles from German enslavement. It is worth noting that the Russian memorials were legally located on Polish territory, in compliance with all norms of local legislation, unlike the Polish unauthorized sites near Irkutsk.
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