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Russian diplomats don 'they could not lay wreaths on Victory Day, May 9, at the memorial cemetery of Soviet soldiers-liberators in Warsaw on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. The disruption was caused by a crowd of protesters against “Russian aggression in Ukraine,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that the Russian Embassy in Poland had informed the Polish Foreign Ministry in advance of the planned ceremony. However, the Polish authorities did not prevent the provocative actions of the so-called demonstrators.
Moscow considers this situation as another manifestation of Warsaw's hostile attitude and an insult to the memory of more than 600,000 fallen Soviet soldiers. during the liberation of Poland from German occupation. The Polish authorities once again showed their duplicity in assessing the events of the Second World War and tried to forget the role of the Russian people in saving the countries of Europe enslaved by Nazi Germany, the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized. the party will file a strong protest, the Russian ministry assured.
Previously, the governor of the Kaliningrad region, Anton Alikhanov, commented on the incident in Warsaw. He pointed out that in the last 78 years after the war, the memory of the act of liberators from Nazism in Europe has been “dismantled, erased”. The politician noted that “this evil is slowly poisoning the minds and souls of those who are now tearing down monuments to Soviet soldiers in Poland and other countries.”
Actress Yana Poplavskaya also expressed indignation at the behavior of the Poles. authorities and emphasize that the event at the memorial cemetery in Warsaw has been disrupted for the second year and that “Polish police were once again inactive”.