Moscow, April 10 (CTK) – The investigating committee of Russia has started a criminal prosecution of the removal of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev’s statue from Prague, its spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said today.
The Prague 6 town hall did so last Friday.
On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said this was a crime that would not remain unanswered.
Petrenko said the criminal prosecution was started due to the desecration of symbols of Russia’s military glory.
She said the steps taken by Prague 6 were cynical, having damaged the obligations arising from bilateral Russian-Czech agreements.
“This is proof of disrespect for joint memory and history of the struggle of the Soviet people against fascism,” Petrenko said.
Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu has asked the head of The Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexandr Bastrykin, to examine the responsibility of foreign officials for the decisions to abolish memorials to the Soviet war dead, the Russian news agency TASS said.
Prague 6 wants to display the statue in the planned Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century.
The Prague 6 Town Hall removed the statue of Konev, which was installed in 1980 in honour of his contribution to the liberation of Prague in 1945, last week as planned.
Critics of the monument warn of Konev’s active role in the suppression of the Hungarian uprising against the Communist regime in 1956, crushed by the Soviet Army, the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 that put an end to the Prague Spring reform movement.
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‘Petrenko said the criminal prosecution was started due to the desecration of symbols of Russia’s military glory.’
Bhaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaa!
More proof that the Moskali don’t respect anyone’s sovereignty. Former occupied states know that trading German fascism for Soviet fascism was not liberation nor anything to commemorate.
Prague had better be careful the moskali don’t suddenly discover some of their citizens in danger of repression.
“The investigating committee of Russia has started a criminal prosecution of the removal of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev’s statue from Prague”
On what legal grounds?
Oh, that’s right … mafia land doesn’t need laws and rules and regulations.
This article made my day for it is proof of how very much the Czechs angered the girls in the Kremlin. They are crying again!
“Slovak communist leader Vlado Clementis complained to Marshal Ivan Konev about the behavior of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia. Konev’s response was to claim it was done mainly by Red Army deserters”