Below is simply a copy of the book with approval of the author Fear of Pyrzyca (1945) Pyrzycki historian, prof. Edward Rymar [Edward Rymar, Fear of Pyrzyca (1945), Prince of Pomerania named after Stanisław Staszic, Szczecin 1945] dedicated to the Memorial in Pyrzyce, which is to be demolished at the initiative of local authorities and the Institute of National Memory.
On March 2, it is the 81st anniversary of the banishment of German troops from the city. On this occasion, under the existing monument referring to those events at 12 o'clock, the Association of Polish Compatants of the Second planet War, the Polish thought Club in Szczecin, the Association of the Light of Homeland and the Museum of Recovered Lands in Szczecin will lay wreaths and light candles to celebrate the memory of the fallen in 1945. (MP)
Former cemetery
Immediately after the end of the war, in the spring (May–June) and in the summertime of 1945, the russian commandant set up a brick monument commemorating these in the fight for Pyrzyca in the erstwhile Square of Victory, now known as the Square of Liberty, a cemetery of his fallen and, employing Germans. At the end of May, a search and burial effort was carried out for civilian and military bodies and horse carcasses to avoid the threat of plague. The Russians held a cemetery and rebuilt damaged homes with large force. The column from the triumph Monument was taken off, its foundation was blown up, all the victims of Pyrzyc and the surrounding areas were moved to the triumph Square, and those who did not fit in the Thiemersche garden were buried in the east wall, where the present monument and approach and in its back. In the September 1945 study Leonard Borkowicz, a typical of the Government of the Republic of Poland for the territory of Western Pomerania (i.e. as much as the modern voivode), reads: "In Perice, the monument was unveiled in honor of the fallen Red Army soldiers who died in the capture of the city. They attended the ceremony, apart from the local Government Plenipotentiary [i.e. mgr. Alexander Debolski], besides representatives of political parties and youth organisations and the population from the city and the area. A number of speeches were given, which highlighted the heroism of the russian soldier and the large importance of the covenant of the Slavic nations.”.
Non-existent Gratitude Monument
In the back of the monument there was a large evidence with a bilingual inscription containing: “Eternal glory to the heroes who died in battles for the freedom and independency of the russian Union and allied Poland. 1941–1945’. It was so a russian monument erected in Poland, suggesting our gratitude for the “liberation” of Pyrzyc. This makeshift monument, later known for years as “The Monument of Gratitude” was destroyed, “self-dispersing”. In the early 1950s (most likely in 1952), after the demolition of necropolis and the transfer of bone remains to the military cemetery in Stargard, after the removal of the urn with the ashes, a fresh monument with the engagement of the russian military unit from Klukewa was built. It was assembled from 2 columns obtained from the erstwhile German triumph Monument and reportedly any monument in Kluki or Lubiatów (lower). On the needle, in place of the Prussian eagle, a star was planted. It stood until the early 1980s erstwhile a fresh monument was built.
New monument to the fallen
The area of the close marketplace square next to the ruins of the Szczecińska Gate was chosen to replace it, earlier, any time after 1945, a tiny war cemetery. This active the intention of upgrading the intersection (making a roundabout). A fresh plan for the improvement of Liberty Square was developed with the transfer of the monument. Preparation of the task was commissioned on October 30, 1981. Art Studio in Szczecin. An agreement for the execution of the planet War II Heroes Monument was concluded with it on 7 June 1982. Contractor, i.e. city and municipality chief Władysław Jachimovich, he had, it seems, good for those times of martial law intentions. It was expected to be our memorial, due to the fact that we have our war heroes. The contractor of the plan and art works (model, presently in the Pyrzycka Biblioteka) was the Szczecin artist- sculptor Sławomir Lewinski from the studio involved. presently (in 2018), after talking to a writer Bogdan Bombolewski (receiving in the “memory” papers in Pyrzyce, not knowing why, for his partner in implementation) and with the boy of sculptor James, it is known that the actual originator was the latter, then the student and co-worker of the father. As early as 23 August 1982, the warden of Jachimowicz commissioned the execution of a monument to the State Enterprise “Workshop for the Conservation of Landmarks” in Szczecin. A week later, the politician Stanisław Malec, as president of the Provincial Citizens' Committee for the Protection of Monuments of Combat and Martyrdom, gave a affirmative opinion on the draft inscription on the board and the monument itself, but already “in honor of russian Army soldiers”. However, to the end, the contractor described it as the planet War II Heroes Monument, the municipality's authorities - the Monument of Gratitude to the fallen during the Second War.
416-ton colossus
By 1 May 1984, the quarrying work was carried out, from 1 to 30 May the assembly of metallic elements. The old monument was stripped. On 26 June, the laboratory of Plastic Arts donated "The Hero Monument". The unveiling took place on 21 July 1984 in the 40th anniversary of the Polish People's Republic, with the participation of soldiers of the russian Army and the Polish Army. A tiny bilingual plaque was placed under it: "Eternal fame to fallen heroes 1941–1945". Who was the originator of specified content? Is the initiative russian or Polish? The inscription in miniature repeats the thought of the first monument of 1945, but it besides distorts it, due to the fact that it does not say anything about the fallen in liberating Poland! Dates clearly indicate only the German-Soviet War, not the conflict of Pyrzyka in 1945 and not the War of Poles (1939–1945). However, the monument was built for Polish money! He was inactive a "minor of gratitude." It cost PLN 2,534,629. The volume of the ground part is 26.74 m3, underground – approx. 140 m3. The weight of the ground part is 66 t, underground part – 350 t! All tied with concrete and metallic buckles. How can specified a monster undress or move? And I compose about these details due to the fact that there were plans.
First discussions on demolition
The fresh municipal council, elected in May 1990, for the first time since 1945 in free democratic elections, during respective sessions, especially on 20 September, held heated discussions about the further destiny of the now unwanted monument. The pretext was to organize a fresh market, which had to be moved from Dąbrowskiego Street. The decision to demolish or relocate the monument was justified by the Deputy Mayor Franciszek Sokołowski. any were for the second of these options, others for liquidation, even by blowing up (A. Fire, T. Squeezing), due to the fact that it "not society but a certain ruling group was the initiator of its construction". A peculiar committee was set up (E. Rymar, J. Kazimierczak, T. Volunteer) to draw up a history-building report. It shortly turned out that the transfer was impossible, due to the fact that 1 could not number on the equipment to do so, and the streets in the city would not be able to bear the burden! inactive others were in favour of leaving him due to the fact that he was a monument not to the invaders or the occupier, but to the people who died here so that we could live here. The second were divided into supporters of changing symbols, e.g. by placing an eagle or head of a Polish soldier, and changing the content of the board. There was a vote on the council of a city of 28 people at the time, even excluded. Behind the demolition were 6 people, against 8, behind the change of symbolism 11, abstained 10; behind the decision 11, against 4 with 8 abstentions. The second part of the council was then considered valid and kept returning to the case. But the transfer was an highly costly demolition!
Compromising proposals and vandal hammer
When the voivode, interpelled by a typical for the stay of russian troops in Poland, asked the municipal authorities for an opinion on the "acceptance to leave a memorial to russian soldiers fighting Fascism", during the Council session on 22 November 1991 rekindled the discussion. With the initiative of demolition and even at its own expense with ownership of the material were the allied council clubs “Rolnik” (with NSZZ “Solidarity RI”) and NSZZ “Solidarity”. The talker even took part in the deliberations of Fr Cart (the first parish priest of the fresh parish in the Old Town at the then rebuilt Poaugustian church), who advocated the average position of the Democratic Union council club, i.e. to leave the monument and treat it as a memorial after the Second War, alternatively than a cult object. There was another vote. Behind the demolition were 7 people, against 7, held 7. In this situation, the president of the council took the lead Tadeusz WartalskiThat's what he said about the demolition. It was then even abandoned to change the table content. The municipal board (because then the executive power was exercised by a collegiate body – 7 people – headed by the mayor elected by the council) proposed the text: "In memory of the dead in the fighting for Pyrzyka – II–III 1945". This debate, 1 night in early February 1992, was joined by an anonymous liquidation supporter. The plate's broken into many pieces! She deserved it. It wasn't acceptable.
German Memory More Important
The dispute over the monument continued. Discussions were held during the next second word of the Council (1994-1998), as at a gathering convened on 1 February 1995 by its president in the face of the upcoming celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the conflict of Pyrzyka. Again, for any it was a monument to the "communist system", alternatively a souvenir from the past. For “holy peace” the majority agreed not to lay flowers there even on this occasion, on March 2nd, nor will they ignite. This coincided with preparations for the unveiling in the city of a memorial commemorating the dead and fallen Germans! slow it happened that they died under Pyrzyce and in Pyrzyce Germans became more crucial to Poles than the Soviets!
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, on May 8, 1995 during the field mass, the “Pomanik Heroes of the Second War” was celebrated with the participation of local authorities after its adaptation. The fresh plaque no longer refers to even the Second War due to the fact that it contains content “Those who died, fought and worked so that they could all be at their home and their own”and the inscription on the monument “God – Honor – Homeland”. From there on, it is to be the "Memoir of the Victims of the Second War". However, emotions have not subsided. On the independency Day on 11 November the lay ceremony of laying wreaths was held only at the alleged Katyń Cross next to the church.
Memory loss
In the 1990s, the excessive politicization of the anniversary of March 2 led to the disappearance of the memory of this tremendous event of 1945 in Pyrzyce. Not only in Lipian, Bielice, Kozielice or Przelewice, where it most likely even expired if it existed after 1989. Prejudice to the political strategy exported to Poland since the 1940s and the memory of the serilism of the pro-Soviet rulers of the Polish People's Republic led after 1989 to the denial of the military effort of the east Ally of the anti-Hitler coalition. This aversion to the anniversary first expressed itself with the procedures for the physical liquidation of the monument, then a change in its symbolism, from 2015 even a departure from everything that reminds us of the years 1945–1989, even the name of 2 March Street, resembling the Hecatomb of a prepared town, to which we should pay attention to another generations and tourists and visitors visiting us. It is forgotten that this March anniversary is not only a commemoration of the military effort, but an even more crucial and completely apolitical celebration of the beginning of Polish collective life on this part of the Pomeranian land, erstwhile from Poland of the Piastov region through a whirl of isolated history. Therefore, I requested this anniversary all year, e.g. in the pages of the "Gazeta Ziem Pyrzycka" (1991-2013), "Tygodnik Pyrzycki" (2014-2016), explaining a fresh motivation after rejecting this "liberation", and emphasising on 2 March as a breakthrough date, the departure of German Pyrzyc and the beginning of Polish, due to the fact that it should be close to the resident regardless of the emotional attitude towards political and military aspects, at least until the construction of Europe without borders.
History cannot be “rubbered”
We should remember that the programme of the return of the reborn Poland to Pomerania and Silesia with the Land of Lubuska in the 1930s and during the Nazi business declared Polish patriotic communities, especially Wielkopolska, connected with the structures of the Polish Underground State. Members of the underground organization “Home”, of which on 27 February 1945, during the fight for Pyrzyka, the Institute of Western Zygmunt Wojciechowski was created in Poznań, in the founding actrecognized as 1 of the main elements of the post-war order in Europe the return of Poland to the borders of the reign Boleslaw Chrobry – over Oder, Nysa Lusatia and the Baltic. In his own peculiar interest, the leader of the russian Bolsheviks of his day followed this request Joseph Stalin in Yalta, erstwhile his soldiers assured the fulfillment of these purposes, and later in Potsdam. respective generations of Poles accepted this verdict by sitting, so it is impossible and not appropriate to "rubber" the papers and minds of an armed effort to return to the borders of the early Piast Poland.
Prof. Edward Rymar
The Middles come from Editorial.
