mo4ch:>Polish court orders investigation into demolition of Soviet cemetery | Mo4ch News

Hundreds of monuments to Soviet soldiers who died liberating Poland in WWII have been dismantled without much pushback in recent years – until a district judge in western Poland sided with a group of citizens who complained.In 2017, the mayor of Trzcianka in the Greater Poland Voivodeship ordered the demolition of the Mausoleum of Soviet Soldiers, where 56 Red Army members who died in the battles to liberate the town – then known as Schönlanke – were buried.On Monday, Judge Marcin Mackowski ordered an investigation into the demolition, based on the complaint by two descendants of the deceased soldiers, represented by the Polish non-governmental association ‘Kursk.’ The complaint claims that the mayor violated several laws, including interstate agreements between Russia and Poland signed in 1992 and 1994 on the protection of monuments and cemeteries.Mayor Krzysztof Czarnecki and the town administration were also accused of formulating the order in such a way to make appeals against it …