The Polish Institute of National Remembrance announced the removal of a monument commemorating the Red Army from the city of Malbork. 

The Communist monument had been standing at Sikorskiego street for nearly eight decades, since 1945 and the Soviet so-called “liberation” of Poland. 

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A company hired by the Institute of Remembrance dismantled the hideous symbol of Stalin’s rule on Poland and its people on Tuesday morning. The whole procedure did not take more than a few hours.  

Passers-by and locals could witness the large stone star being thrown to the ground and taken away. All elements of the monument were crushed and removed.

The conservator’s decision meant that the Institute of National Remembrance had an open way to remove the monument. And on Tuesday morning (August 9), a company rented by the institute appeared at Sikorskiego Street.

The Deputy Minister of State Assets Karol Rabenda told Malbork Nasze Miasto that the dismantling of the monument was a “historic moment” as it put an end to “the decommunisation process in Malbork”. 

“In 1989, it was a natural process, but this monument testified to the fact that it was never fully completed. There should be no room for Russian or Soviet imperialism symbols in Polish public space, ” he insisted.

Image: Radosław Konczyński

Author: Sébastien Meuwissen