MOSCOW, 24 APR – RIA Novosti. Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Russian military historical society (RVIA) Vladimir Medina believes that to demolish the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev in Prague decided policy at the local level, so “to vent your inferiority complex.”
“the Decision to demolish the monument to Marshal Konev in Prague took politics at the local level who take out their inferiority complex on the great men of the past, thereby offending the Russians and Czech patriots who fought against Nazism, insult their ancestors with flowers greeted the liberators – soldiers of Marshal Konev,” said Medina on the online lectures to students of the University.
“to fight like this, we will tell the historical truth as it really is, to lead a more active information policy”, – Medinsky said.
RVIA Chairman recalled that the monument is Konev in the Czech Republic was made by the Prague authorities and installed in gratitude for the liberation of Prague by the city Marshal managed to release without significant damage.
Authorities of the district Prague 6, implementing its decision of September 12, 2019, dismantled April 3, Konev monument that was installed in the area. According to the initiator of the demolition of the monument, warden (head) of district 36-year-old ondřej Kolář, the monument is transferred to the Museum of the history of the twentieth century. In the main investigation Department of the RF IC opened a criminal case about the desecration of symbols of Russia’s military glory, committed publicly. It was reported that Medina April 15 passed in the UK a list of the persons responsible for the demolition of the monument.
the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that Moscow urges the Czech Republic to the execution of a bilateral agreement, involving the preservation in the preservation of military monuments, and is ready for substantive dialogue with the Czech authorities on the issue of the demolition of the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev.
