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The Institute of National Remembrance of Poland (IPN) expressed outrage that a Virtuti Militari (Military Valor) order was spotted at a Ukrainian auction.
The IPN demanded that it be handed over to Warsaw.
“An offer to sell the Virtuti Militari military order appeared on one of the Ukrainian internet sites,” the institute said in a statement.
It is specified that the military decoration was awarded to an officer who became a victim of the NKVD in the spring of 1940.
The IPN said that by the number visible on the order, it was possible to identify the person to whom it was awarded: a descendant of German industrialists, Captain Juliusz Roman Heinzel, commander of a squadron of the 16th Greater Poland Uhlan Regiment.
The Institute of National Remembrance called on the owner of the Virtuti Militari who posted the listing to remove it from the auction and hand the souvenir over to the Polish authorities, stressing that “the memory of victims cannot be a subject of bargaining.”
Earlier, the State Duma responded to Poland’s accusations that the USSR unleashed World War II, recalling that Warsaw categorically refused a military alliance between the USSR, the United Kingdom, and France.
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