A monument celebrating Soviet-Polish unity in defeating Nazi Germany has been torn down in the town of Nowogard in northwestern Poland. This is one of many Soviet-era statues to be torn down in the country ever since the war in Ukraine began, many of them commemorating the victory against fascism during WWII.
The right-wing “Institute of National Remembrance” in Poland, who oversaw the destruction of the Nowogard monument yesterday, says that in 2022 there were over 60 Soviet monuments throughout the country. Since then, almost 40 of them have been destroyed.
Poland was raising hell in the EU to the point of threatening to quit over few thousand Syrians, literally build a fence and assigned 100 time more patrols on the border with Belarus over few hundreds Iraqis trying to cross to Germany, but literally at the same point taken in at least 2 million Ukrainians even before the war. First two cases were accompanied in media by 24/7 usual antimmigrant rhetorics about jobs, crimes etc. Third one was barely ever commented in mainstream (and it was pure social dumping, response for job market starting to slightly favour workers around 2014/15).