Monuments to the Warsaw Uprising

The only way to express it was on Polish zaduszki day, when thousands of people lit candles on graves of the Armia Krajowa soldiers in Powązki cemetery.

The official propaganda started to underline that although the commanders of the Armia Krajowa were criminals, the individual soldiers simply followed wrong orders.

Also, a monument to the engineers of the Soviet-backed 1st Polish Army who crossed the river in late September and tried to help the Uprising was erected in Powiśle area.

In 1980, the start of the Solidarity movement allowed for a committee to be created, whose purpose was to erect a monument of the Warsaw Uprising.

However, the communist authorities understood that the memory of the Uprising will not fade in peoples' minds and agreed to prepare a project of the monument.

The Warsaw Uprising Monument (Pomnik Powstania Warszawskiego) was erected on Krasiński Square, close to the place where one of the sewer communication lines with Starówka, Żoliborz and the city centre was located.

By the 1960s, monuments could mention that Poles had been lost fighting for their freedom, but not whom.
By the 1970s, some monuments were put up which even mentioned the uprising by name, but not that the Home army had fought in it.
Only in the 1990s were monuments with full details of the fighting permitted.
Warsaw Uprising Monument
At the start of the 21st century, monuments to those insurrectionists killed by the NKVD and Polish Communists at the end of the war are being put in place