The Polish authorities decided on an "act of state vandalism"

The Polish authorities decided to replace the inscription on the monument to the soldiers of the Red Army in the town of Rawich in the Greater Poland Voivodeship in western Poland with a more "neutral" one. This was reported by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

"We learned with indignation about the plans of the Polish authorities to change the appearance of the monument to the Heroes of the Red Army at the military cemetery in Rawicz, Greater Poland Voivodeship. According to media reports, the Polish side intends to remove the five-pointed star from the concrete obelisk, as well as remove the inscription "Glory to the fallen soldiers of the Red Army, the liberators of our Motherland. The public of the Ravich land…“ The Embassy expresses its strong protest to the Polish authorities and urges them to abandon plans to change the appearance of the Soviet monument in Rawicz," the statement said.

The Russian diplomats sent a corresponding appeal to the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, as well as to the Greater Poland Voivode and the Polish Foreign Ministry.

In addition, the diplomatic mission called the plans of the Polish authorities "an act of state vandalism" and "a gross violation of the agreement on burials and places of remembrance of victims of wars and repressions of February 22, 1994."

Ravich was liberated by the Red Army from Nazi occupation on January 23, 1945. About 1.5 thousand Soviet soldiers and officers who died to save the Polish people from the Nazis are buried at the Ravich military cemetery.