“This (the decision to move the monument. - RT ) is a shame for us. Konev is a symbol of the soldiers who died during the liberation of Prague. There were about 13 thousand of them. He is also a symbol of the Red Army soldiers who fell during the liberation of Czechoslovakia, and there were about 150 thousand of them, ”TASS quoted Zeman as saying.
Earlier, the authorities of the Prague-6 district, on the territory of which the monument is located, decided to transfer it to the museum.
The Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic, in turn, expressed outrage at this.
The monument to Marshal Konev was installed in the Czech capital in 1980.
He was repeatedly targeted by vandals. So, in the spring of 2018, unknown persons doused the monument with pink paint, and in the fall of 2017, vandals wrote several dates on the monument.
Also on August 22, unidentified persons desecrated the monument, writing an insult on it with paint.