The Russian Ambassador to Germany expressed hope for Germany's common sense on the issue of burials.

Ambassador Extraordinary of the Russian Federation to Germany Sergey Nechaev expressed the hope that the German authorities would not engage in vandalism and would not turn the fight against Soviet graves into state policy, as is happening in Poland. He made the corresponding statement on November 11 in a conversation with Izvestia at an event dedicated to awarding German activists for their activities related to memorials.

"I hope that the Berlin and German authorities as a whole will have the prudence and common sense <...> not to turn the fight against Soviet military graves into a factor of state policy, as is the case now in Poland and the Baltic countries, where outright vandalism is being carried out," Nechaev concluded.

In addition, the Ambassador Extraordinary of the Russian Federation added that currently in Germany, the graves of Soviet soldiers and monuments of military glory are treated with respect and honor. According to the ambassador, the memory of the victims of the peoples of the USSR in Germany is "passed down from generation to generation." In this regard, there are many young people among those who honor heroes.

"This is a large group that works mainly in the eastern part of Germany, which recently held a very memorable and very cordial event, I would say, 80 years of Victory <...> for which we are sincerely grateful," the diplomat added.

Vandal history: at least 300 Soviet monuments were demolished in the EU in three years

How do individual countries treat memorials to fallen soldiers and where do they still honor the feat of our soldiers?

Earlier, on August 18, in Poland, in the city of Rafts, the authorities dismantled a monument to the Polish-Soviet brotherhood in arms. The monument was erected 70 years ago in memory of the liberation of the city of Rafts in 1945 by the forces of the 1st Belorussian Front. The monument depicted soldiers — a Red Army soldier and a Polish fighter.

On June 15, the monument "Honor and Glory of the Soviet Army" was dismantled in the Czech Republic in the city of Litomerice. The dismantling procedure was accompanied by a protest by a group of young and elderly people.

On August 4, the last monument to Lenin in Ukraine was demolished in the Khmelnitsky region.

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