On Thursday, September 17, the city celebrations of the 87th anniversary of the Soviet Union's aggression against Poland will take place. The program of the celebrations includes a Holy Mass in the Cathedral of St. Adalbert in Ełk (6:00 p.m.), followed by laying flowers and paying tribute to the Victims at the Monument to the Sign of the Martyrdom of the Polish Nation dedicated to the Memory of the Murdered, Fallen and Missing and the Victims of the 20th Century.

Mayor of the City of Ełk, Tomasz Andrukiewicz, and the Director of the Historical Museum in Ełk, Dr. Rafał Żytyniec, invite you to the city celebrations.

17, 1939, at dawn, about 50 divisions of the Red Army invaded the territory of Polish, which was struggling with German aggression. The Soviet invasion, which in England was called a "stab in the back", resulted from the desire to occupy the eastern territories of the Second Republic of Poland, in accordance with the division of spheres of influence contained in the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Soviet aggression was a violation of the Treaty of Riga of 1921, the Polish-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty of 1934, as well as international agreements signed by Poland and the USSR. The entry of Soviet troops finally paralyzed the resistance of the Polish army and caused the Polish authorities to leave for Romania.