Polish-Russian relations in a pickle.

There's a new draft law in Poland which allow local authorites the option of removing monuments which glorify Communism. Polish Culture Minister Kazimierz Ujazdowski "stressed that the regulations did not involve removing graves of Russian soldiers. Instead, the law has to do with the removal of ideological memorials that recall "the Communist bondage and which are directed against Polish national dignity," he said. He also emphasized that only two paragraphs of the new law on monuments actually have to do with Soviet-era memorials."

In Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's words: "Nobody will dictate to us what the streets in Poland will be named and which monuments will stand in Poland."

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[Kaczynski] [Ujazdowski] [Poland] [Russia] [World War II]