The Polish authorities did not want to install in Krakow monument to red army soldiers who died there in 1919-1921, said Last news Ombudsman of the Russian military historical society (RVIA).
at the Rakowicki cemetery in Krakow buried more than 1,200 soldiers of the red army who died in the concentration camps of the Soviet-Polish war in the vicinity of the city. RVIO proposed installation of the monument, this idea was supported by the Russian diplomatic mission.
" in the name of the Russian Ambassador in the capital of Poland received a letter of refusal ", - stressed in RVI. In the letter from the Polish Council for the protection of memory of struggle and martyrdom, the text of which is transferred from RVIO in the Last news , says that the Governor of ma?opolska province " may not respond positively to the appeal of the Embassy of the Russian Federation ".
" Mr. Governor in support of its decision focused on the fact that the place in the 71st sector above the cemetery, which was meant to make a memorial, is in part made in the register of historical monuments, and in addition, there is in fact buried not only the soldiers of the red army, but also the soldiers and civilians of different nationalities ", - the document says.
according to the Polish side, in this place are, for example, burial poles, Hungarians, Belarusians, Ukrainians. Accurate information about nationality and those buried there." now Mr. Governor wants to perpetuate the memory of all nationalities who are buried in this place, " says the letter of the Polish Council for the protection of memory of struggle and martyrdom. It is noted that the necessary archival research, perhaps with the assistance of the international Commission of historians to establish the number of buried persons and their nationality.
" Mr. Governor made the initiative as a temporary solution to install in 2015 table with information about buried on the site of the cemetery of prisoners of war and internees contained in 1914-1921 years in the camp in D?bie (near Krakow), that is, all the dead, according to the current time information, and about the prisoners of war from the red army, " the letter reads.
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