30.11.201, Фонд
стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия) Strategic Culture
Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia)
In early November a memorial to «the victims of Maidan» was
suddenly erected on the Wilenski square, Warsaw, no matter the plans had
envisioned the restoration of the Brotherhood in Arms Statue devoted to
commemorate dozens of thousands of Red Army soldiers who lost their lives to
liberate Poland from fascism in the days of WWII. The fact sparked a wave of
indignation but it was not the desecration of the soldiers’ memory that caused
it. Here is a message posted to Kresy.pl – «Maidan means a square in Ukrainian.
Ukrainians made Poles come to maidan before they were slaughtered (in Volyn. –
Author’s note). In some populated areas the swamps with remains of the victims
are still called maidans».
Some time before that the plans to erect the memorial to Polish
death camp victims (Red Army soldiers who died in 1922-23) in Kraków’s
Rakowicki Cemetery had been cancelled…
To make clear what exactly happened to the victims in question I
offer to have a look at what happened in the second largest concentration camp
that was located in the vicinity of Tuchola. The camp was built during the
First World War. In 1919 the place became a prison for the soldiers of
Ukrainian and Belarusian formations, the civilians who had sympathy for the
Soviet government and the interned officers of the White Army.
In December 1920 Polish Red Cross worker Natalia Kreiz Velezhinska
said the prisoners lived dug-outs with stairs going down. The interned