WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish officials have viewed two potential sites for an outdoor museum where dismantled Soviet-era monuments praising the Red Army could be placed.

The idea by the state National Remembrance Institute to remove the monuments from squares and parks across Poland is backed by the conservative government, which says the Red Army brought Poland new enslavement in 1944-45 as it chased away the Nazis.

The plan has met with strong criticism from Moscow.

Institute spokeswoman Agnieszka Sopinska-Jaremczak said Wednesday that officials viewed two sites — a former test range in Czerwony Bor in northeastern Poland and a former Red Army base in Borne-Sulinowo in the northwest. The choice of a site is to be announced in June.

In Hungary, a similar Soviet monument park has been created outside of Budapest.