As noted in the diplomatic mission, this step was not a surprise.
“Given that it was the district authorities who initiated the campaign around the memorial, which offends the memory of the soldiers of the Red Army, Czechs and Slovaks who fought for the liberation of Czechoslovakia and its capital from Nazism, and bear all responsibility for the situation,” RIA Novosti quotes the embassy.
Earlier in Prague, they decided to move the monument to Marshal Konev in the museum.
The monument to the Marshal of the USSR 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.