Poland risks Moscow's ire with plan to relocate war memorials


  • World
  • Tuesday, 28 Jun 2016

A man rides a bike in front of the monument of the Gratitude for the Soviet Army Soldiers in Warsaw, Poland May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WARSAW (Reuters) - More than 200 monuments to Stalin's Red Army could be taken from towns across Poland and relocated on the site of a former Soviet military base under plans announced on Tuesday by a state-backed Polish historical institute.

At the risk of upsetting Moscow, the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) proposes to house the so-called "monuments of gratitude to the Red Army" in a park in the former base at Borne Sulinowo, a small town 275 miles (440 km) northwest of Warsaw.

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