President Duda has approved the prohibition of propaganda of totalitarian regimes.
The President of Poland Andrzej Duda signed a law on de-communization, banning the promotion of communism or another totalitarian regime” in the names of streets, buildings and other public facilities, according to the office of the President.
In the explanatory note to the law specifies that the names of public facilities, including streets, roads, bridges and squares, which are given by territorial bodies of local self-government, “can’t immortalize people, organizations, events or dates, symbolizing communism or another totalitarian regime, or to promote such a regime any other way.”
Also explains that under communism advocating the need to understand such names, which “symbolize the repressive, authoritarian and non-sovereign system of government in Poland in the years 1944-1989”.
On the implementation of the law is given year – during which time local governments must change the names of objects that do not meet the law.
The law will come into force three months.
To reduce costs to citizens in connection with change of names of streets and objects, edit the land registers and other official documents will be free of charge.
Note, in Ukraine decommunization held since April of last year. According to the Ukrainian Institute of national memory, rename left a dozen settlements and one regional center – Kirovograd.
