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A revised law on de-Communization that envisions the pulling down of monuments and memorials associated with Communism or any other totalitarian system takes effect in Poland.

TASS agency reported, the amendments concerning commemorative sites were endorsed by the Sejm, national parliament, in July and then signed by President Andrzej Duda. Now they have taken legal effect.

The Polish National Memory Institute takes the role of the main consultant on the issue. Its experts are convinced that about 230 monuments devoted to the Red Army and located across the country fall into the category of objects advertising communism, the source said.

According to the law provision, memorials and any other sites of the kind should not commemorate the individuals, organizations, events or dates emblematizing Communism or any other totalitarian system.

As the agency reported, the Russian foreign ministry informed the Polish authorities Moscow will not leave the law unanswered and the Federation Council, the upper house of Russian parliament, has asked President Putin to instruct the government agencies and department to draw up possible restrictive measures against Poland.