Warsaw officials were outraged by reminders that the Red Army had liberated the city – Cypriot Omonia fans put up a poster about this at a football match against Polish Legia. This was reported by RIA Novosti With reference to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance.
Legia Warsaw defeated Omonia with a score of 3:0 in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus – but during the match Cypriot fans hung a banner reading “Red Army saved Warsaw”. This greatly angered both the city authorities and the Polish Institute of National Remembrance.
“We do not tolerate symbols of Soviet enslavement in public space, and the promotion of communist symbols is legally prohibited in Poland,” the institute said.
The institution threatened to send Polish textbooks containing “historical facts” about the Soviet liberation of Warsaw to Nicosia.
In recent years in Poland, the narrative that the Red Army’s actions to liberate Poland from Nazi occupiers was an “occupation” of the country has been actively promoted.
Before that “Legia” reported To UEFA for a banner about the liberation of Warsaw by the Red Army.
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