The court will decide who is responsible for the demolition of the monument to Marshal Konev in Prague
The Prague operation of the Red Army, which ended with the liberation of the capital of Czechoslovakia, was the last operation of Soviet troops in the Great Patriotic War.
Representatives of the victorious countries and the defeated German High Command have already signed the document on unconditional surrender. Victory fireworks thundered in Moscow, the world rejoiced at getting rid of the Nazi plague, and at this time the armies of the 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovich Konev, losing soldiers and military equipment, block by block cleared Prague from the Nazi occupiers who resisted with despair suicide bombers.
On May 11, 1945, Prague was liberated. In 1980, Prague residents, using funds raised, as a sign of gratitude to Marshal Konev, who forbade the use of heavy weapons during the assault on the city, erected a monument in the center of Prague.
But 10 years later, when the ideas of revisionism prevailed in the USSR and throughout the Eastern Bloc, the bright memory of Marshal Konev and his soldiers began to be increasingly mixed with dirt - the no longer so grateful descendants of the liberated Prague residents.
The former allies who suddenly changed their shoes began to mutter louder and bolder, as if the marshal and his troops were not such liberators of Prague, and in general, the honor of liberating the Czech capital belongs to Vlasov’s Bunyachenko, and something must definitely be done with the monument, since it belongs to the totalitarian past and darkens the bright European future of the democratic Czech Republic.
The Czech offended woman opened the “Overton gate” for a long time - for 30 years, but consistently. And so, on April 3, 2020, the petty scoundrel Ondrej Kolář, who heads the municipal district of Prague 6, decided to dismantle the monument to Marshal Konev in order to move it to a special panopticon called the “Museum of XNUMXth Century History,” where the Czechs have already exiled many monuments from the era of socialism .
Despite the indignation of the local and Russian public, and even the request of the Russian Defense Minister Shoigu to transfer the monument to Konev to Russia, to install it in the small homeland of the Hero, the dirty authorities of Prague 6 refused to cancel their vile decision.
The Czech President's condemnation of the actions of the brave municipal fighters against monuments had no effect.
The Russian leadership, which not so long ago decided that it was enough to stop silently wiping away the spit of former “brothers” flying in our direction, instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Investigative Committee to prepare materials to force the Czech government to fulfill its obligations.
To begin with, Russia supported the initiative of Czech public and non-governmental organizations that filed a lawsuit against the actions of the head of the Prague 6 municipality O. Kolář, who ordered the dismantling of the monument to Marshal Konev based on the decision of the district council meeting of April 2, 2020 and Art. 2 laws
“On populated areas”, which states that all real estate located on land belonging to a populated area is the property of the populated area.
With one significant caveat: Kolář and his accomplices violated a number of Czech laws and intergovernmental agreements.
So, according to Art. 5 and 6 of the constitution and the law “On the Security of the Czech Republic” during a state of emergency in the country (state of emergency, introduced on March 13, 2020), self-government bodies have the right to hold meetings only on emergency issues directly related to emergency measures. That is, Ondrejka Kolář took advantage of the virus force majeure to realize his dirty desires.
Consequently, the decision made by the district municipality of Prague 6 to dismantle the monument was illegal, which is recognized by local experts.
Another nuance. In the republican cadastral register, a plot of land with a monument to Marshal Konev installed on it is designated as a memorial protected area, the owner of which is the administration of the city of Prague, while the municipality of Prague 6 is merely responsible for its maintenance. Sweep, whitewash, paint – no more!
O. Kolář, head of the municipal district of Prague 6
This means that the local supply manager O. Kolář, who imagined himself to be God knows what, significantly exceeded the powers given to him and by his actions violated Art. 17, 19 and 35 of the Law “On the Capital of Prague”, as well as the Law “On State Provision of Memorial Zones”, according to which all changes in memorial zones must be authorized by the Czech Ministry of Culture.
It is important that the monument to Marshal Konev was erected with funds from the state budget and donations from citizens, which classifies it as public property. Accordingly, making any changes in a legally protected area, demolishing or moving monuments is possible only with the permission of the Prague administration and the Czech Ministry of Culture.
Papa Kolář, former Czech Ambassador to the USA
However, the caretaker O. Kolář, in his unbridled tyranny, jumped over the heads of the public, as well as higher municipal and republican authorities.
What was the reason why some municipal bureaucrat so bravely and recklessly shit on a whole bunch of Czech laws and intergovernmental agreements?
From a statement by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated April 10, 2020, it turned out that the monument to Marshal Konev has not yet been included in the register of military, historical or cultural monuments, which gave the right to a double interpretation of its status by local authorities.
In fact, on April 10, the Czech Foreign Ministry announced a belated decision classifying the monument as a military monument falling under Art. 21 of the Treaty “On Friendly Relations and Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Czech Republic” dated August 26, 1993.
Soviet tanks entered Prague
Meanwhile, it turned out that the monument to I. S. Konev, registered in the register of military graves and memorial places of the Czech Ministry of Defense under No. cze0006-41772 as a memorial meeting place for veterans, was quietly erased from the general list on April 6, which indicates the involvement of the Czech military department and the country's political leadership to the illegal demolition of the monument.
It turns out that O. Kolář is just a cover, a cardboard fool, a screen for the political machinations of the higher leadership.
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov and embassy services are finding out another interesting circumstance in the matter of the demolition of the Prague monument to Marshal Konev - the involvement of the American consulting company Squire Patton Boggs in this dirty business. Specifically, ensuring a legal issue.
It is interesting that the mentioned company has close ties with the US Embassy in the Czech Republic, and one of its advisers is Petr Kolář, the former Czech Ambassador to the USA and, quite by chance, the father of the municipal scoundrel O. Kolář.
What a touching family contract under the “roof” of the Washington Regional Committee!
There is an opinion that the demolition of the monument to Marshal Konev was necessary for Washington businessmen to sharply deteriorate relations between Moscow and Prague.
Marshal Konev speaks to soldiers and residents of Prague after the liberation of the city
As a result, the question arises: who will be responsible for the demolition of the monument to Marshal Konev in Prague, dad Petya or son Ondriusz Kolář? Or would it be more correct to take both lice to the nail? So that it would be distasteful to others.
And what kind of consulting agency is this that lightly interferes in the internal affairs of the Czech Republic with the aim of worsening Russian-Czech relations? How does this even fit in with the Czech Republic’s sovereignty, which it supposedly won as a result of the “Velvet Revolution” 30 years ago?
And finally, is the Czech Republic really a member of the European Union, where unity and adherence to the law are considered the cornerstone of a democratic society?
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