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Russian and Slovak parliamentarians have paid tribute to Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of Slovakia, TASS reports. The memorial ceremony took place at the Slavin Memorial in Bratislava. Representatives of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, along with deputies of the Slovak National Assembly, laid flowers on a 42-meter-high stele decorated with a bronze sculpture of a victorious warrior. The ceremony was timed to the 75th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising.
Member of the Slovak parliament Lumir Petrak is confident that the memory of soldiers and officers of the Red Army, as well as of Soviet people who fought as partisans in the country, remains sacred to Slovaks today. He has no doubt that Russia was, is and will be close to Slovaks, a fraternal Slavic country.
According to Petrak, who leads the parliamentary friendship group with Russia, historical lessons must not be forgotten. The peoples of the two countries fought together with the enemy and now together remember a very important date.
Petrak emphasized that the Slovak supreme legislative body consisted of 150 deputies. The friendship group with Russia includes more than fifty of them.
Senator Vyacheslav Timchenko, who in turn also leads a friendship group with Slovakia, praised bilateral relations. The interaction between Moscow and Bratislava can serve as an example for other European countries, he noted.
The Russian politician also emphasized that the monuments to the liberators and the burial places of those killed in the republic are being maintained in exemplary condition.
Almost seven thousand dead soldiers are buried on the territory of the Slavin memorial complex. It is located on the hill of the Small Carpathians and rises above the center of the Slovak capital of the same name hill 252 meters high. The memorial is declared a cultural monument of Slovakia. Its dominant feature is a stele with a bronze figure of the Red Army, which is visible from many areas of Bratislava.
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