According to Czech Radio, the inscription “Budapest 1956” and the Hungarian flag appeared on the monument.

Nějací “hrdinové” v noci pod pláštěm tmy polili a pomalovali červenou barvou Památník Rudé armády v Komenského sadech. Stydím se za ně! Prokázali tím leda svou zbabělost, neznalost dějin a neúctu k vojákům, kteří při osvobozování Ostravy padli a jejichž ostatky jsou zde uloženy. pic.twitter.com/RpGsSsPjs4

- Tomáš Macura (@ Macura2014) October 23, 2019

“Some“ heroes ”covered the night with a red paint and painted a monument to the Red Army in Comenius Park under the cover of night. I am ashamed of them! They showed their cowardice and their ignorance of history, showed disrespect to the soldiers that fell during the liberation of Ostrava and whose remains are stored here, ”wrote Mayor Tomas Matsura on Twitter.

The monument to the Red Army was erected in Ostrava in 1946 on the first anniversary of the end of World War II.

In August, unidentified persons desecrated the monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Konev in Prague by writing an insult on the monument with paint

The monument was repeatedly targeted by vandals. So, in the spring of 2018, unknown persons poured pink paint on the Konev monument, and in the fall of 2017, vandals wrote several dates on the monument.