Poland’s authorities has alleged that authorities in Belarus had been levelling a memorial web site containing the graves of Polish troopers who died throughout the Second World Warfare.
The allegation got here a day after the Polish authorities mentioned it was demolishing a monument to Soviet Purple Military troopers in Poland, certainly one of dozens marked for destruction since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six months in the past.
Lukasz Jasina, the spokesman for Poland’s Overseas Ministry, mentioned on Twitter that a cemetery in Surkonty, Belarus, the place members of Poland’s largest wartime resistance power battled Soviet military troops, was being “devastated by the companies of the Minsk regime”.
“Those that suppose that the human reminiscence of heroes might be eradicated are very mistaken. The regime pays for these acts of barbarism,” Mr Jasina wrote.
There was no instant remark from Belarus, and it was not clear if the developments had been associated. Belarus has destroyed different Polish memorial websites up to now.
Poland, like a lot of its neighbours, was invaded and occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union throughout the Second World Warfare after which spent many years below Moscow-backed rule.
Earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine, there was an effort to take away hated communist symbols from public areas in Poland.
Nonetheless, cemeteries with the graves of Purple Military troopers will not be disturbed in Poland.
The cemetery in Belarus is the ultimate resting place of troopers with Poland’s Residence Military, a resistance power that additionally fought the occupying German forces all through the warfare.
The Residence Military was below the command of a Polish government-in-exile that was based mostly in London throughout the nation’s occupation by Nazi and Soviet forces.