“The blasphemous decision to erect a monument to the Vlasovites adopted on December 10, 2019 by the Legislative Assembly of the Prague-Rzeporye district cannot cause anything but a feeling of deep indignation,” the diplomat’s statement said on Facebook.
According to the diplomatic mission, special cynicism lies in the fact that they are going to put the monument on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
As emphasized in the message, it is puzzling that such initiatives "receive support in a country that has survived the horrors of the villages of Liditsa and Lezhaki destroyed by the Nazis, where criminals who wore the same military uniform were atrocious."
Earlier, the diplomatic mission stated that they would regard the installation of the monument as a violation of obligations under the Convention on Crimes against Humanity.
The Vlasovites are called the servicemen of the Russian Liberation Army, who fought on the side of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The term comes from the name of the commander of the army, General Andrei Vlasov.