A monument to repressed Poles disappeared from the Levashovsky Memorial
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A memorial sign dedicated to repressed Poles has disappeared at the Levashovsky Memorial Cemetery in the Leningrad region. In the 1930s and 1950s, the Levashov wasteland was a shooting range of the NKVD, where about 45,000 victims of Stalin’s repressions of various nationalities were buried. St. Petersburg journalists reported the disappearance of the memorial sign to the executed Poles.
Journalist Halyna Artyomenko referred to the message of the head of the “Returned Names” center, historian Anatoly Razumov. Razumov sent her photos of the memorial from which the cross in memory of the Poles disappeared. He specified that the administration of the memorial in Levashovo does not know what happened to the memorial sign.
Artyomenko’s words were confirmed by another journalist from St. Petersburg, Natalya Shkurenok.
This is not the first case of the disappearance of memorial signs dedicated to citizens of Poland and ethnic Poles who were subjected to repressions in the USSR. Last November, seven plaques with lists of repressed and deported Poles disappeared from the memorial complex for victims of political terror and those who died during the Great Patriotic War in the Tomsk region. This June, in Yakutsk, plaques with the names of the dead also disappeared from the monument to the memory of Poles, victims of deportations of the 18th-19th centuries and mass repressions of the 20th century.
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