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Prague resident chained himself to monument to Marshal Konev

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Prague resident chained himself to monument to Marshal Konev


17.09.2019


Residents of the Czech capital continue to protest against the decision of the city authorities to move away the monument to marshal Konev. The day before, an unknown man chained himself to the monument, RIA Novosti reports. According to law enforcement agencies, police officers visited the site. They did not record violations of public order.

The man himself said that he planned to spend the whole evening at the monument and then return home.

This is not the first case of protest. Representatives of various public organizations three times removed the tarpaulin from the sculpture until they forced the authorities to remove it. The protests took place not only at the place where the monument was installed, but also at the administration building of the Prague-6 district. Every day, city residents leave bouquets of flowers at the monument to Konev.

Russkiy Mir reported that the authorities in the metropolitan area of ​​Prague-6 decided to move the monument to the museum at a meeting on September 12. It is planned to erect a new memorial to the heroes-liberators of Prague in 1945 in its place, the project will be selected on a competitive basis.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry called on Czech politicians to stop mocking the monument to Marshal Konev. The diplomats called the campaign unleashed around the monument in Prague "obscene" and recalled that the monuments retained their meaning only in relation to territories where specific historical events took place. The suggestions for removing the monuments are an attempt to belittle the significance of the historical events to which they are dedicated.

The head of state Milos Zeman called the situation a shame for Czech Republic. He recalled that the monument was a symbol of the memory of all the Red Army soldiers who fell in 1945 during the liberation of Prague, and there were about 13 thousand of them. It is also a symbol of 150 thousand soldiers who died in the battles for Czechoslovakia.

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