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Article: Poland Will Protect Soviet War Memorials
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- May 7, 2007
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WARSAW, Poland - Poland is preparing a law that will give local authorities a free hand to remove monuments of "praise for the communist dictatorship" but also will require the preservation of memorials that honor Soviet soldiers, a Cabinet minister said Monday.
The move comes after a Soviet war memorial was removed from a downtown square in the capital of neighboring Estonia, touching off riots by ethnic Russians in that former Soviet republic and ratcheting up tensions with Russia.
But Culture Minister Kazimierz Michal Ujazdowski said the Polish legislation was conceived months before the dispute and was intended to deal with the issue in an orderly manner.
"The point of the law is ...