2023-10-22 14:08:00
At the Prince Vladimirsky cemetery in Vladimir, a memorial to the victims of Soviet repression was dismantled. About this on October 13 reported Greek Catholic priest Ilya Astapov, 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, Sheptytsky was a member of the Israeli Holocaust Research Center Yad Vashem. announced “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jews during World War II, and in 2001 – beatified by the Catholic Church, notes “Mediazona”.
In turn, “Tenet” writesthat the memorial also included plaques dedicated to Lithuanian Foreign Minister and Catholic Archbishop Mecislovas Reinis and 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 this memorial complex continued visit foreign diplomats even following the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine.
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,” it was said in 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.
In Russia, monuments to exiled Poles and Lithuanians are being systematically destroyed – as well as to fallen Finnish soldiers. Authorities usually say that they do not know who is to blame – and do not try to find out.
In Russia, monuments to exiled Poles and Lithuanians are being systematically destroyed – as well as to fallen Finnish soldiers. Authorities usually say that they do not know who is to blame – and do not try to find out.
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