Poland wants Russia to return paintings looted during WWII

Exterior of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, shown in an undated photo. On September 14, the Polish minister for culture announced his intention to request the return of seven paintings looted from the country by the Soviet Red Army during World War II and ultimately housed in the museum. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Ghirlandajo. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Exterior of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, shown in an undated photo. On September 14, the Polish minister for culture announced his intention to request the return of seven paintings looted from the country by the Soviet Red Army during World War II and ultimately housed in the museum. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Ghirlandajo. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Exterior of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, shown in an undated photo. On September 14, the Polish Minister for Culture, Piotr Glinski, announced an intention to formally request the return of seven paintings looted from the country by the Soviet Red Army during World War II and ultimately housed in the Russian museum. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Ghirlandajo. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland will formally ask Russia to return seven paintings now in a leading Moscow museum that were looted during World War II by the Soviet Red Army, the Polish culture minister said last week.

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