Polish victims of repression monument disappears in Russia. Poland clarifies circumstances

This was reported by Polskie Radio.

Polish Ambassador Krzysztof Krajewski suggested that the monument was "removed, as in Stalin's time, under the cover of night". The diplomat noted that the monument was dismantled from a cemetery where more than 45,000 victims of Stalinist repression are buried.

Krajewski stressed that in Poland, no one removes monuments to Russian or Soviet soldiers that are located at burial sites.

"It is a shame that the places of memory of victims of exile to Siberia, victims of political repression disappear in cemeteries under unknown circumstances. No one in Poland, I emphasise, no one in Poland, thanks to our culture and respect for the dead, removes any monuments and burial sites from cemeteries," he says.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this is not the first monument to Poles who were victims of repression to disappear from Russia under unknown circumstances.

Polish diplomats working in Russia are trying to establish the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the monument in Levashovo.