Memorial to victims of Soviet repressions demolished in Vladimir

At the Prince Vladimirsky cemetery in Vladimir, a memorial to the victims of Soviet repression was dismantled. this on October 13 Greek Catholic priest Ilya Astapov reported , and the publication Argument drew attention to the post.

Astapov noted that one of the tablets was dedicated to the memory of Archimandrite of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Klimenty Sheptytsky, who was repressed for refusing to cooperate with the Soviet authorities. In 1995, the Israeli Holocaust research center Yad Vashem declared Sheptytsky “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jews during World War II, and in 2001 he was beatified by the Catholic Church, notes . Mediazona

In turn, “Tenet” writes that the memorial also had plaques dedicated to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and Catholic Archbishop Mecislovas Reinis and the Polish politician Jan Jankowski. According to the publication, they all died in the Vladimir Central and were buried in a mass grave. “Dovod” also noted that continued to visit this memorial complex even after the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine. foreign diplomats

It is unknown who exactly initiated the destruction of the memorial. However, shortly before the dismantling, “Dovod” writes, pro-government media published articles criticizing the memorial: “In the city of Vladimir today you can see several memorial plaques not for Vladimir residents or even Russians. These are memorial plaques in honor of the ardent enemies of our country, responsible for the deaths of thousands of our compatriots,” said an SM News article published in late August.

• After the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops, monuments and memorial signs dedicated to foreigners who were repressed and died during World War II are systematically destroyed in Russia. Thus, in September, a monument to exiled Poles and victims of repression disappeared in Yakutsk. Before this, it became known that a monument to Finnish soldiers who died during the war had disappeared in the Leningrad region. In addition, in the summer, a monument to the Poles who were repressed during the Great Terror disappeared from the Levashovsky memorial cemetery.