WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's government alleged Thursday that authorities in neighboring Belarus were leveling a memorial site containing the graves of Polish resistance fighters who died battling Soviet soldiers during World War II.
Lukasz Jasina, the spokesman for Poland's Foreign Ministry, said on Twitter that a cemetery in Surkonty, Belarus — a village where members of Poland's largest wartime resistance force, the Home Army, fought Soviet army troops on Aug. 21, 1944 — was being “devastated by the services of the Minsk regime.”
“Those who think that the human memory of heroes can be eradicated are very mistaken. The regime will pay for these acts of barbarism," Jasina wrote.
The allegation, based on reports from the Polish minority in Belarus, came a day after the Polish government said it was demolishing a monument to Soviet Red Army soldiers in southwestern Poland, one of dozens marked for destruction since Russia's invasion of Ukraine six months ago. No soldiers were buried at the monument site.
