the Historical museum open-air in which the dismantled monuments of gratitude of Red army will be collected, will open in the city of Borne-Sulinovo (The West Pomor voivodeship) in Poland on September 17, 2017, reports "The Polish radio" with reference to Institute of national memory.
"We would like p that so-called monuments of gratitude of Red army were collected in one place where it will be possible to tell about a context, history of their emergence and that they meant. We called previously this place the museum open-air and made the decision to arrange this museum in the city of Borne-Sulinovo. It is the symbolical settlement from the point of view of history because some tens years it was closed for Poles. There large divisions of the Soviet army" took place, declared the vice-head of institute Pavel Ukelsky told.
He noted that concerning museum creation the Polish party did not hold consultations with Russia. "The contract with the Russian side concerns only places of burials and memory, that is cemeteries, and does not concern symbolical memorable places about which there is a speech in our action", - Ukelsky noted.
the Institute carried out inventory during which it became clear that in the country there are 229 monuments of Red army which could get to the museum. It is reported that the institute is ready to transport monuments in the museum on own account. Expenses on creation of the museum can make to half a million euro. The head of department of formation of Institute of national memory Andrzej Zavistovsky noted that monuments from cemeteries of the Soviet soldiers will not be transferred.