The Monument to Brotherhood in Arms () was erected in in

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district, in 1945, to commemorate the joint fight of Polish and Soviet soldiers against

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. In 2011, it was temporarily taken down during the construction of an underground railway station and sent to restorers. However, when it was about to be reinstalled, a minority of Praga's residents objected, as they perceived the monument as a remnant of the

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. In surveys carried out by the city council and

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in 2012 and 2013 respectively, the majority of Warsaw's residents said they would like the monument to be returned to its original place or placed somewhere nearby. In 2015, the

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overturned its earlier decision to return the monument and made the removal permanent. The monument was colloquially known as "the four sleepers" or "the four mourners" (pomnik „czterech śpiących”, „czterech smutnych”), in reference to the figures of two Polish and two Soviet soldiers with bowed heads at the four corners of the monument.

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