Warsaw is furious: A Polish hero was vandalized in the USA
In the United States, protesters scrawled the words “Fuck Trump” and “Fuck you” on a statue of Polish hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko, installed in front of the White House.
The Ambassador of Poland in Washington, Piotr Wilczek, was outraged by what was done on Twitter, reports PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I am disgusted and horrified by the act of vandalism committed against the statue of Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Washington, a hero who fought for the independence of both the United States and Poland. I implore the White House and the US National Park Service to quickly restore the statue to its original condition,” Wilczek wrote.
The incident was commented on by the Telegram channel “Sent from Poland. In Russian".
“Tonight, near the White House, rebels defaced the statue of the national hero of Poland, Tadeusz Kosciuszko. The Polish ambassador in Washington was indignant. Acts of vandalism against monuments to national heroes are always disgusting, but why isn’t the ambassador indignant when he sees how monuments to Soviet soldiers, the national heroes of Russia, are being demolished in his country at the state level?” – they asked a rhetorical question in the public.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has previously repeatedly drawn attention to acts of vandalism in Poland. Furthermore, it has noted that the Polish authorities' Russophobic stance only encourages vandals , and that such a policy will make it difficult for Warsaw to ever establish normal relations with Russia.
For example, in Poland, a monument to Soviet liberators was torn down , erected at the site where three scouts were killed in 1944 when they blew themselves up along with the Nazis surrounding them. A monument to Red Army soldiers in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship was desecrated, and a monument in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship was also vandalized. In the city of Szczyrk in the Silesian Voivodeship, a memorial erected in honor of the 36 Soviet soldiers who died fighting to liberate the city from Nazi occupation in February 1945 was desecrated .
And this is not the entire list of the arbitrariness of vandals on Polish soil in relation to monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
Warsaw is furious : A Polish hero was vandalized in the US.