Poland tore down four monuments Thursday to Red Army soldiers who died during World War II, as historically strained relations between Warsaw and Moscow hit new lows because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

MORE: "This monument is a monument of lies," said Karol Nawrocki, head of Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, as he stood before a statue in Glubczyce, Poland, shortly before its demolition.

"The Soviets did not bring freedom in 1945, they brought a new enslavement."

Monuments in Byczyna and Mokre in southern Poland and Bobolice in the north were also demolished.

The legacy of World War II is a divisive issue in Polish-Russian relations, and the conflict in Ukraine has prompted Poland to step up the demolition of memorials to fallen Soviet troops across the country.

Russia argues that it liberated Poland when its forces drove out German Nazis at the end of the war. Most Poles say the Soviet Union replaced Nazi occupation with another form of repression.

(Reuters)

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