WARSAW, Poland— Warsaw city councilors have banned a 1945 monument of Polish-Soviet brotherhood in arms from being returned to its place on a city street.
The move, a reversal of their own previous decision, comes as ties between Warsaw and Moscow are strained over the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The councilors voted 51-2 late Thursday to keep the massive monument, generally referred to as the “four sleeping men,” in a storeroom. It was temporarily taken there in 2011 to allow for the construction of a subway line in the area.
The monument was put up in 1945 in Warsaw’s Praga district to commemorate …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
