“I want to remind you today that the Red Army and the Czechs and Slovaks who fought along with it paid the highest price for the liberation of Slovakia,” the prime minister quoted RIA Novosti as saying.
He noted that only during the battles for the village of Kalinov, 1,200 Soviet soldiers were killed.
Pellegrini also said that it was necessary to combat attempts to falsify history and distort the course of World War II.
“You have to be proud and always honor those who fought for our freedom,” he added.
Earlier in Bulgaria, it was proposed to reconsider the role of the USSR in the liberation of Europe.