The President of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) Karol Nawrocki announced that the Institute of National Remembrance will implement the 2016 Act, the will of the Polish parliament, which was the decommunization of public space, with full determination. “The process of decommunization should be completed”, said Nawrocki.

“In Christian civilization, in Latin civilization, in other cultures that aspire to civilization, the destruction of cemeteries and graves is an act of barbarism. Even the thieves face Almighty God, who judges their earthly lives”, said the President of the Institute of National Remembrance at the conference in Siedlec, preceding the dismantling of the Red Army monument.

“In my country, in Poland, cemeteries are places of eternal peace. Also, for those who perhaps in our earthly understanding did not deserve this peace”, emphasized Nawrocki and added that the Institute of National Remembrance, while carrying out its statutory tasks, does not touch cemeteries and graves, which are places of eternal rest.

“On the other hand, the Institute will implement the law of 2016 with full determination, i.e. the will of the Polish parliament (…), whose will was to decommunizate public space and prohibit the promotion of totalitarian symbols in public space. The process of decommunization in the Republic of Poland should be completed”, announced the president of the Institute of National Remembrance.

“Those people who want to see the Soviet soldier with PPSh-41 in his hand as the liberator should move to the small town of Radomyśl in 1945, where Soviet soldiers raped a 50-year-old woman and a 23-year-old woman in the seventh month of pregnancy”, said Nawrocki.

“Such a system, the communist system was introduced to Poland on the bayonets of people like this Soviet soldier”, assessed the President of the Institute of National Remembrance. “They replaced German Nazism with Soviet totalitarianism, which murdered Polish victims until the end of 1989. Therefore, those symbols have no place in free Poland”, said the President of the Institute of National Remembrance.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński