Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East. Muranowska Street, Warsaw, Poland.
The Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East is a monument located at the intersection of Muranowska and General Wladyslaw Anders streets in Warsaw, which commemorates the victims of Soviet aggression of Poland during World War II and subsequent repressions. It was unveiled on 17 September 1995, on the 56th anniversary of the Soviet invasion in 1939. The monument was erected in honour thousands of Poles killed and murdered in the East, in particular those deported to labour camps in Siberia and the victims of the Katyn massacre. The statue shows a pile of religious symbols (Catholic and Orthodox crosses as well as Jewish and Muslim symbols) on a railway flatcar, which is set on tracks. Each railway sleeper displays the names of places from which Polish citizens were deported for use as slave labour in the USSR, and the names of the camps and various outposts of the gulag, including the mass murder sites used by the Soviet NKVD.
Size: 3600px × 2397px
Location: Muranowska Street, Warsaw, Poland, Europe
Photo credit: © Dariusz Leszczynski / Alamy / Afripics
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