Truck Driver Pulled Down Monument To Suvorov In Kobryn (Photo)

On September 17, a truck driver accidentally pulled down a bust to Russian commander Alexander Suvorov, placed in front of entrance to the Kobryn Museum of Military History.

This was announced on Facebook by local activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy organizing committee Viktar Harbachou. “The monument of the executioner of Belarus Suvorov was destroyed today in Kobryn as the result of a dangerous and precise manoeuvring. Hooray! It’s much better now. Thanks to the driver of Brest meat processing plant,” – he noted.

In total, two busts and one monument in full growth of Suvorov were mounted in Kobryn during the Soviet era, krynica.info reminds.

Alexander Suvorov (1729-1800) – a Russian military leader, who is known in the history of Belarus by his active participation in the bloody suppression of the Bar Confederation in 1768-1772 and the uprising led by Tadeusz Kosciuszko in 1794. For the suppression of the latter, he was granted the Kobryn municipality with more than 13 thousand of the male population. The nationally-oriented forces actively oppose his honouring in Belarus.