Jeremy Szumczyk

Jeremy Szumczy

• Jeremy in a student at Gdansk's Academy of fine arts, On the 12th of october 2013 he produced a piece of work that made people very angry with what he had made. He had made a statue called 'Komm Krau' or 'Come Here Woman' it was shown in Gdansk then a few days later was removed by authorities. 
• The statue shows a soviet soldier raping a pregnant women as he holds a gun to her head, Szumczyk said that after he had researched the mass rape that the red army did as they made their way through Eastern Europe in 1944-45 he felt that he just had to express he's feeling and his end result was this emotional depiction of the red armies raping. For his work he was detained and he work was removed on monday the 14th. 
• The red army attacked any women between the age of 10 and 89 and to add to the torment and the humiliation the soldiers more often than not did this in front for the families. it is believed that as many as 2 million were raped by the red army, the unwanted pregnancies that sometimes followed meant babies abandoned and left to die. Stalin completely condoned rape saying that is was a way for his soldiers to be rewarded. For example his police chief Berin was said to have raped more than 100 school girls and young women by grabbing them off the streets into his car.  
• How many raped by the red army, Germany- 2million, Vienna- 70-100,00, Hungary- 50-200,000, and thousands in Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, and after all these fact and figures its not surprising that Szumczyk wanted to show some kind of justice for the women involved in this horrendous ordeal.