Polish Diplomats Visited Kurapaty on All Saints Day :: Charter'97 :: News

Today Polish Ambassador to Belarus Tadeusz Pawlak and Polish diplomats from the Polish Embassy came to pay the tribute to the memory of innocent victims, including Poles, shot by NKVD punitive detachments in the time of Stalin. About 4,000 Poles were shot in Kurapaty, according to some estimation.

Polish Ambassador to Belarus Tadeusz Pawlak, as all his predecessors at this position, visits Kurapaty annually on the All Saints Day. The Ambassador lights a candle and places a bouquet of white and red flowers to the “Polish Cross”, put up in Kurapaty more than ten years ago.

“We always come to this gloomy place, to Kurapaty, on November 1, to pay the tribute to the memory of victims of Stalin’s totalitarian regime. It is our duty to bow our heads to them and keep memory of them. They perished in he beginning of the 20th century, and we are to remember about these crimes of Stalin and his inhuman regime. We are to remember that, so it would never repeat in our history. Among the victims buries here are Poles , so we venerate the memory of our fellow citizens, but not only them, we honour as well the Belarusians who had been murdered here,” the Ambassador said.