In the Czech capital, despite the dissatisfaction of Moscow, dismantled the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev, under whose command the Soviet troops fighting the Nazis entered Prague in 1945
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In the Czech capital, despite the dissatisfaction of Moscow, dismantled the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev, under whose command the Soviet troops fighting the Nazis entered Prague in 1945. After that, the country was installed Communist regime, and she entered permanently into the Soviet sphere of influence.
Monumental statue located in the territory of the district Prague 6 on Friday was removed from the pedestal using a crane, according to ct24. According to the representative of the city administration, the statue of the commander will be exposed as an exhibit in the planned “Museum of memory of XX century”.
“Konev overthrown, but Konev would stand only in the Museum. The result is they are going to play the last note in this study”, commented the incident, the head of the district administration of Prague 6 ondřej kolář. His words are quoted DW.
local government Action is criticized Czech President Milos Zeman. He considered “unjustified from a moral point of view,” a similar event held in the conditions of declared in the country of quarantine. However, the administration of Prague 6 replied that the dismantling of the monument was planned long before the emergence of the pandemic crownvirus.
Russia will not leave unanswered the dismantling of the monument to Marshal Konev in Prague. In this regard, the Czech foreign Ministry sent a note of protest, the Russian Embassy in the Republic.
Russia sees the incident as an unfriendly act, directly contradicts the Treaty on friendly relations and cooperation between Russia and the Czech Republic in 1993, added the Embassy. In particular, the Czech Republic is in breach, in accordance with which it shall protect monuments of history and culture on its territory, and also to keep the Russian military monuments and care for them.
“it is clear that the provocative actions of the initiators of the war with the monuments, with the connivance of the Czech Republic’s authorities, making deterioration of the whole complex of Russian-Czech relations”, – stated in the message quoted by “Interfax”.
In September 2019 discussed the decision to dismantle the statue Konev also caused an international scandal. Then the Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky described the ondřej Kolář as the Nazi Gauleiter. “Prague was liberated after the fall of Berlin. It was not a walk. Was thrown into the army Konev, 12 thousand of our soldiers died liberating Prague. The grateful inhabitants of Prague put Konev monument. And then the headman of a district said they were on Board put the question to dismantle the monument to the liberator and Savior of the city. This Gauleiter local scale. And President Milos Zeman as a wise man and educated said that it is a disgrace and you can’t do that,” said the then head of the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation.
In connection with this statement of the Russian Ambassador was summoned to the foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic.
the Monument to Konev was installed in Prague in 1980. Unlike the monument to Lenin, the monument experienced a “velvet revolution” in Czechoslovakia 1989, but in recent years have been increasingly subjected to vandalism. Critics in the Czech Republic considered the monument a symbol of Soviet occupation, an expression which was, in particular, the suppression of the Prague spring in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
At the same time, the proponents of the monument to Konev in the same place belonged to him as a symbol of victory over fascism.
Note, in 1956 Konev as commander of the Combined armed forces of Warsaw Pact countries led the suppression of the popular uprising against the Communist government in Hungary. And during the construction of the Berlin wall, he held the post of commander in chief group of Soviet forces in Germany.
In August 2019 unknown painted monument paint. After this, the authorities of the district Prague 6 and began talking about the possibility of moving the monument, then in its place to establish another monument to the liberators of Prague.
