The headman of the Prague-6 district said that Russia is guilty of demolishing the monument to Konev

The headman of Prague-6 district, Ondřej Kolarge, who is the initiator of the demolition of the monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev in the Czech capital, said that Russia was allegedly guilty of this demolition. He made such a confession on June 28 in an interview with Parlamentn listy. According to the headman, if Russia had not started what began, the monument would have stood still to this day. At the same time, according to Colarge, he spoke out with a categorical condemnation of the damage to monuments that is currently taking place in Europe and the United States. The headman also noted that if it were not for Moscow, then the monument to Konev would still be standing. No one set himself the task we must demolish Konev. Absolutely not. When we first told the Russians that we would give them the monument, say that it would stand in the embassy, where it would be reliably protected, they answered several times that it was our duty to protect the monument, Kolarge said. In addition, he said that in the end, to protect the monument from vandals, signs had to be placed on it, to which the Russian authorities expressed their dissatisfaction, to which he threatened to hand over the statue to scrap metal. At the same time, the headman complained that information surfaced that his grandfather was connected with the Gestapo and threats from the Czechs and actions in defense of the monument began. After that, the headman, who stated that he did not want such a resonance, decided to demolish the monument. Note, as reported by the news agency, in the city of Orzhekhov in the Czech Republic on June 26, a solemn ceremony was held to open ten memorial plates with the names of the Red Army fighters who died during the liberation of the city. Recall that the monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev was inaugurated in Prague-6 in the Bubenech district on Interbrigad Square, next to Yugoslav Partisans Street, on May 9, 1980, as a historical reminder of the merits of the Marshal and troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army in saving Prague from destruction by the Nazis during the Prague uprising during the Great Patriotic War