Coat Of Arms Of Kalinouski Rebels Disappears From Ksendz Falkowski's Commemorative Boulder In Lida

The Lukashists have committed another act of vandalism.

Unknown vandals erased the coat of arms of the Kastus Kalinouski's rebellion on the grave of priest Adam Falkowski, who was shot in Lida in June 1863 for having voiced the manifesto of the uprising and urged to take part in it, reports "Spadchyna".

In 1919, an iron cross was erected on the grave of priest Adam Falkowski, and a street in Lida was named after the priest, but in 1940 Soviet authorities demolished the cross and destroyed the grave. In 1996, the Lida "Adradzhenne" branch of the BPF party installed a wooden cross at the place of the priest's burial on Dziady, but it was also destroyed.

The crosses on Falkowski's grave were broken for several more years, and in 2010 the grave was levelled with a bulldozer, as the town was preparing for "Dazhynki". In response, young people organised a 5-day picket at the grave and re-installed the cross, to which they began to bring candles. Then the authorities suggested replacing the cross with a memorial stone.

Thirteen years later, the descendants of Muravyov the Hanged Man again desecrated the place of burial - rubbed out on the stone the coat of arms of the uprising of 1863.

"Does history remember those whose graves they sought to destroy? Yes. Does history remember those who destroyed graves? No. And this is the verdict of history," notes the author of the message on the Spadchyna telegram channel.

Catholic priest Adam Falkowski was arrested on May 3, 1863. On June 24, he was shot for publicly voicing the manifesto of the uprising of 1863-1864 in the church. The stone on the tomb of the priest is now located in the recreation park in Lida.