The monument to the repressed Poles restore

The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that the monument to the repressed Poles, who disappeared from the Levashovsky cemetery in July, is at restoration. The response of the department on Tuesday, August 22, was published by the deputy of the St. Petersburg Zaks Boris Vishnevsky.

Details. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the monument is stored in the State Unitary Enterprise "Ritual Services". When he is returned back to the cemetery, the department was not specified.

Boris Vishnevsky said that he would send a request to Vice-Governor Boris Piotrovsky with a request to indicate exactly what damage to the monument received and provide a photo. He also wants to clarify why, after damage to the monument, a criminal case was not instituted and when it is returned to the cemetery.

Context. At the end of July, a monument to the repressed Poles disappeared from the Levashovsky cemetery. Later in Smolny they said that the memorial at restoration. The deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky said that he did not believe the official version of what happened, and wrote a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to initiate a criminal case of vandalism.

On August 21, foreign diplomats and members of the Memorial were not allowed to hold a rally of memory of repressed Poles to the Levashov cemetery. The administration of the cemetery announced the "sanitary day for the inventory of trees" from August 19 to 23.

At the entrance to the cemetery of the participants of the action was met by activists of the patriotic movement "Volunteer company" with posters. The memorial noted that one of them was written "Hands off the monuments." The memory action eventually passed at the gates of the cemetery.

What you need to know. After the start of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, cases of destroying the symbols of the memory of repressions were more frequent - so, in February, the words “innocently killed” disappeared from the monument to the monument to the repressed Ukrainians, and in early July, a memorial plaque in honor of the Poles - the Poles - the Poles, the Poles of the Shlijasselburg fortress, was removed from the wall of the fortress.

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