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Local activists in Ossów (near Warsaw), supported by the Law and Justice party (PiS, populist right) and the local archbishop, are erecting a memorial, the so-called “Smoleńsk Valley”, to jointly pay tribute to the victims of the Battle of Warsaw in 1920 and the crash of the presidential plane in Smoleńsk in 2010.
The sanctuary is made of 96 oak trees planted to commemorate each victim of the crash, as well as bronze busts of the most prominent passengers of the plane.
At the same time, some of the activists want to relocate a monument that already sits nearby, which has been vandalised several times since 2010, as well as a cemetery of Soviet soldiers killed in the Polish-Soviet war of 1920.
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