In a craven act of historical revisionism, Polish bourgeois authorities have dismantled the historic World War Two Red Army Monument (Monument of Gratitude to the Soviet Army) in the southeastern city of Rzeszów.
The so-called Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), acting as the ideological cleanup crew for the capitalist state, deployed heavy machinery and pneumatic drills to forcefully rip down the 6.6-ton bronze statue of a woman and child from its 8.5-meter obelisk.
Erected in 1951, the monument stood for three-quarters of a century as a sacred testament of gratitude to the Soviet liberators who smashed the fascist Nazi occupation. This state-sanctioned vandalism is not merely an attack on stone and metal; it is a desperate attempt by the Polish ruling class to erase the memory of the Red Army soldiers who spilled their blood to save the Slavic people from total industrial extermination.
Alongside the main statue, the reactionary Polish regime targeted bas-reliefs honoring Marshal Ivan Konev and symbols of proletarian solidarity depicting a worker and a peasant.By moving an urn containing the soil of revolutionary execution sites to a distant cemetery and hiding the remaining art in a military museum, the capitalist authorities expose their terror of Soviet history.
No amount of right-wing “decommunization” can rewrite the material reality: it was the hammer and sickle that broke the back of Hitler’s war machine, and no bourgeois bulldozer can erase that eternal truth from the consciousness of the international working class.
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