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In January 1945, in the final stage of the Wislansko-Odrzanska war operation,
The Red Army troops were approaching the Oder line from Czestochowa.
The units of the 1st Ukrainian Front, not waiting for the construction of the pontoon crossing, started to cross the frozen river. Among others, the commander of two Soviet regiments, Vicienty V. Skryganov, was fatally wounded here.
After heavy fighting that lasted until February 7, the Russians created a large bridgehead on the left bank of the Oder River.
A total of 325 Red Army soldiers died near Skorogoszcz, who were buried in the cemetery, from where their ashes were moved to Kluczbork on 12 and 13 August 1953.
Apart from the soldiers killed in the fights, many drowned in the Oder and Nysa rivers. Generally, the losses were greater - the combat operations cost the lives of almost 700 soldiers.
However, the myth was spread that up to 40,000 soldiers died in these areas. In the autumn of 1945, the Russian unit inż-bud. It erected a huge obelisk on the left bank of the Oder River.
Then, for years, delegations with wreaths came to the monument, appeals of the fallen were held and Russian soldiers took their annual oaths here.
Nowadays, the monument, forgotten by the local authorities, is becoming more and more dilapidated, but still remains a significant attraction for tourists fascinated by the history of war.
The battle for this monument has been going on for several months. According to the provisions of the new decommunization law, the monument was to disappear by the end of March this year. It still stands today and the authorities of Lewin Brzeski are waiting for the final decision of the Institute of National Remembrance.
Attempts were also made to blow up the monument
A burning tire, and under it a gas cylinder - with the help of such objects, an unknown perpetrator tried to destroy the monument to the fallen soldiers of the Red Army.
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