One day, Georgy visited the memory alley near Brest once again. It was created by the director of one of the local markets, Natalia Ilnitskaya. For several years in a row, she used her own money to remove monuments to Soviet soldiers who died at the hands of the Nazis from Poland: after all, the Poles have dismantled hundreds of monuments in recent years. When Georgy first spoke with Natalia Emelyanovna in 2021, she had already removed 26 monuments. She said that she learned about the dismantlement and her heart bled - 600,000 Soviet soldiers died in Poland, and this is how they are treated. She contacted 11 Polish provinces and began traveling around the republic: she notes that many Poles helped her voluntarily and without self-interest. Often, statues and obelisks were in terrible condition - broken, blown up. The first monument in the alley, "Two Soldiers," was vandalized - pieces were broken off, paint was poured on it, weapons were torn off. Natalia Emelyanovna restored it with a personal investment, and is proud: "This is the most beautiful one we have now." The most unpleasant thing here is that the Poles sold these monuments that they blew up and smashed. Think about it - the vandals dismantled it, destroyed it, threw the fragments into a ditch: and they also get paid for the right to take the remains of the monument home. It happened that local administrations in Poland completely refused the right to export. Better for the ruins to be on the ground, but not on our property, yes. Georgy notes that over 5 years the alley has changed a lot. Natalia Ilnitskaya brought, as planned, a statue of a Red Army soldier with a child in his arms, a copy of the famous monument in Treptow Park in Berlin. Everywhere near the monuments there are photographs showing what condition these gravestones were in previously. But today they are like new - the restoration was done very well, and everything looks like a full-fledged open-air museum. Admission is of course free; no tickets are sold. I walk and read the inscriptions on the monuments.

One day, Georgy visited the memory alley near Brest once again. It was created by the director of one of the local markets, Natalia Ilnitskaya. For several years in a row, she used her own money to remove monuments to Soviet soldiers who died at the hands of the Nazis from Poland: after all, the Poles have dismantled hundreds of monuments in recent years. When Georgy first spoke with Natalia Emelyanovna in 2021, she had already removed 26 monuments. She said that she learned about the dismantlement and her heart bled - 600,000 Soviet soldiers died in Poland, and this is how they are treated. She contacted 11 Polish provinces and began traveling around the republic: she notes that many Poles helped her voluntarily and without self-interest. Often, statues and obelisks were in terrible condition - broken, blown up. The first monument in the alley, "Two Soldiers," was vandalized - pieces were broken off, paint was poured on it, weapons were torn off. Natalia Emelyanovna restored it with a personal investment, and is proud: "This is the most beautiful one we have now." The most unpleasant thing here is that the Poles sold these monuments that they blew up and smashed. Think about it - the vandals dismantled it, destroyed it, threw the fragments into a ditch: and they also get paid for the right to take the remains of the monument home. It happened that local administrations in Poland completely refused the right to export. Better for the ruins to be on the ground, but not on our property, yes. Georgy notes that over 5 years the alley has changed a lot. Natalia Ilnitskaya brought, as planned, a statue of a Red Army soldier with a child in his arms, a copy of the famous monument in Treptow Park in Berlin. Everywhere near the monuments there are photographs showing what condition these gravestones were in previously. But today they are like new - the restoration was done very well, and everything looks like a full-fledged open-air museum. Admission is of course free; no tickets are sold. I walk and read the inscriptions on the monuments.