UK will study the circumstances of the demolition of the monument to Soviet soldiers in Poland

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to investigate the circumstances of the demolition of the monument to Soviet soldiers in the Polish city of Walbrzych. About it on Saturday reported department press office.

We are talking about the demolition of the sculpture of a Red Army soldier. A red star and the inscription “To Soviet soldiers who died in World War II” were placed on the base of the monument. The department believes that the destruction of the monument is directed “against the interests of the Russian Federation in matters of preserving the historical memory of the activities of the USSR during the Second World War and its decisive role in the victory over Nazism.”

“The head of the department instructed the investigators to request the Russian Foreign Ministry for the necessary information related to this incident,” the press service said in a statement.

The attitude of foreign states to the military memorial heritage of Russia and the USSR can be considered among the criteria for assessing them as unfriendly, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said in May.

At the end of August in the department warnedthat the demolition of Soviet monuments in the Baltic countries will affect the state of bilateral relations, Moscow will take asymmetric measures in response. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have begun a full-scale demolition of Soviet monuments this summer.