Poland's ambassador to Russia has submitted a diplomatic note to the Russian Foreign Ministry concerning the removal of monuments to Polish victims of repression, he told PAP on Monday.
A monument and a cross in Russia commemorating Polish and Lithuanian victims of Soviet terror have been removed, the Polish ambassador to Moscow has told PAP.
Russia has launched an investigation after Poland dismantled "a monument of gratitude to the Red Army" in Głubczyce, in the southern part of the country, the head of the National Remembrance Institute (IPN) has said.
There is no place for monuments glorifying the actions of the Red Army, the head of the Polish president's International Policy Bureau has said.
A 25-year-old man has been charged with defacing a statue of the late Polish pope, John Paul II, in Lodz last Sunday.
Police in the city of Lodz have launched an inquiry into an attack on a statue of Pope John Paul II, who has been recently accused of covering up cases of child abuse.
Taken in the 1930s by a French WWI veteran visiting the country, the candid pictures offer a remarkable insight into a long-forgotten past.
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The colossal discovery, which includes 577 ancient burial barrows, 246 charcoal kiln sites, 54 tar plants, 19 complexes of ancient farmlands, 30 tranches, 51 semi-dugouts and 17 war cemeteries, and was made by archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.
Although the ruins at the site of the 1st Military Clinical Hospital in Lublin were known for some time, investigations were launched after an intrigued worker recalled stories from post-war doctors at the hospital about their origins.
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