Authorities in Ploty have removed the town’s last communist-era monument, following Poland’s legislation prohibiting symbols that glorify the communist period.
Zig Diaries World News
Date: Monday, 18 August 2025
Time: 13:45 WAT
Location: 📍 Ploty, Poland
The action marks the final enforcement of the country’s 2017 law banning
communist-era symbols in public spaces.
Town authorities
authorised the removal, supervised by the Institute of National Remembrance
(IPN), which enforces the legislation. Ploty Mayor Szymon Klimko said the
monument symbolised “the worst period of post-war Poland,” justifying its
removal.
The statue, the
last of its kind in the town, had stood as a relic of Poland’s post-World War
II communist regime. The law prohibits public display of monuments, statues,
and symbols deemed to promote communism, aiming to prevent the glorification of
a regime responsible for oppression and human rights abuses.
Fact-Check & Background
Poland passed the law in 2017 targeting communist-era symbols in public spaces.
The Institute of National Remembrance is tasked with historical preservation and ensuring compliance with laws removing totalitarian propaganda.
Similar removals have taken place across Poland in cities like Warsaw, Gdansk, and Wroclaw over the past decade.
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