Crude anti-Russian disinformation was concocted in the Czech Republic
In the Czech Republic, there is growing hysteria associated with the demolition in Prague of the monument to Marshal Konev, who liberated the city from the Nazis, in Prague in early April.
One of the influential local media, Respect, published information that the mayor of the Prague 6 district, Ondrej Kolář, who made the decision to dismantle it, as well as the head of the Rzeporye district, Pavel Navozny, and the mayor of Prague, Zdenek Hrib, were taken under police protection due to a threat to life.
The Czech agency writes that the lives of politicians are threatened by an unnamed Russian citizen, as well as an active “group of intelligence officers” from Russia.
“All three have long been critical of authoritarian regimes in Russia and China. As for Kolář, this is not a precautionary measure. According to Respect sources, a Russian citizen has arrived in Prague and may pose a danger to Kolář. In addition, a little earlier, the movement of a group of intelligence officers from Russia to Europe was recorded,” says the article, which also talks about the threats that were received against Kolář after the dismantling of the monument.
In Russia, the information from the Czech media was called nonsense and an attempt by Prague politicians to increase their own worth.
“This is crudely concocted disinformation. Not only did the Czech Republic inflict a state insult on Russia by demolishing the monument to the marshal, under whose leadership Prague was liberated. Now they also want to throw out their inner shit on the fan in order to pretend that Russia allegedly sent some liquidators.
Of course, this is nonsense and a low-grade anti-Russian trick, which does not even need comment, because it smells so bad that anyone can discern that this is a provocation and disinformation,” a Russian military expert, editor-in-chief, said in a comment to PolitNavigator magazine "National Defense" Igor Korotchenko.
There have already been suggestions on social networks that Prague politicians could become “sacred victims” of Western intelligence services in order to use this factor to increase international pressure on Russia. Korotchenko refused to comment on this information, comparing the story to a bad American action movie.
“They are victims of their own historical oblivion and simply human and political meanness. They are victims of their own meanness. And I don’t even want to comment on sacred sacrifices, because it all smells bad. This is all in the genre of action films of the 50s of the last century,” the military expert summed up.
Let us recall that earlier Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu appealed to the Czech authorities with a call to hand over the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev to Russia. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation also opened a criminal case into the demolition of the monument.
Russian experts told PolitNavigator that if acts of vandalism are carried out in the Czech Republic at the state level against monuments to the heroes-liberators from Nazi Germany, Russia is ready to take the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev dismantled in Prague onto its territory at its own expense. In the future Russian justice should extend beyond borders of the Russian Federation, the practice of criminal prosecution for mockery of Red Army monuments.
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