The Avenger (sculpture)
Monument in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
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The Avenger (Polish: Mściciel) is a bronze sculpture dedicated to the victims of the Katyn massacre, located near Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States. It is placed at the Polish military cemetery near the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa. It was designed by Andrzej Pityński, and unveiled on August 14, 1988. The sculpture has the height of 32.8 ft (10 m), and includes a bronze statue of a Polish hussar, a heavy-cavalry soldier in armour decorated with wings on his back, kneeling on one leg and supporting himself with a sword stuck into the ground, placed on a granite pedestal.
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