31.03.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation
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The
thoroughfare called Victory Avenue and a T-34 tank as a war memorial make
remember the fact that the city of Gdansk (former Danzig) was liberated by the
Red Army in the days of WWII. The main Soviet battle tank played a great role
in the battle to liberate the city from Nazis. The 1stGuards Tank
Army under the command of Mikhail Katukov bore the brunt of fighting during the
East Pomeranian operation. The 1st Polish armoured brigade (named after the Heroes
of Westerplatte) armed with Soviet T-34 tanks also took part in the fight. The
Soviet command let the Polish soldiers hoist the Polish flag over Gdynia on
March 28 and Gdansk on March 30.
On
October 12, 2013 the statue entitled Komm Frau (Come Here Woman) was installed
on Gdansk's Avenue of Victory alongside the T-34. A Polish student at Gdansk's
Fine Arts Academy placed the sculpture depicting a Red Army soldier raping a
pregnant German woman. That’s how he wanted to depict the Red Army soldiers who
liberated the city and the country from Nazis. What has happened to the memory
of Polish people? Has it been poisoned by lies? Was there nobody around who
could explain to the student that if it were not for the Red Army making
Hitlerites flee, his predecessors would not have been alive and he would not
have come into this world?
There is
nobody there to tell young Poles how strong were the German defenses in Eastern
Pomerania and how hard it was to break through. Hitlerites built the
Danzig-Gdynia fortified
