Poland risks Moscow's ire with plan to relocate war memorials

[WorldNews]

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By Tadeusz Kolasinski WARSAW (Reuters) - More than 200 monuments to Stalin's Red Army could be taken from towns across Poland and relocated on the site of a former Soviet military base under plans announced on Tuesday by a state-backed Polish historical institute. At the risk of upsetting Moscow, the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) proposes to house the so-called "monuments of gratitude to the Red Army" in a park in the former base at Borne Sulinowo, a small town 275 miles (440 km) northwest of Warsaw. Poland, once a member of the former Soviet bloc but now a western ally in NATO, is still grappling with the legacy of war and communist rule and its relations with Moscow have been strained for some years.

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