FILE - The statue of a Soviet World War II commander Marshall Ivan Stepanovic Konev is removed from its site in Prague, Czech Republic, April 3, 2020. The Czech capital has stripped a Soviet World War II commander of Prague honorary citizenship. Prague’s city assembly has on Thursday May 26, 2022 approved mayor Zdenek Hrib’s proposal to revoke Marshall Ivan Konev’s citizenship. The Czech capital stripped a Soviet World War II commander of his honorary Prague citizenship Thursday.
The Prague City Council ’s approved Mayor Zdenek Hrib’s proposal to revoke the honor bestowed in June 1945 on Soviet Marshal Ivan Stepanovic Konev. Konev led the Red Army forces that liberated large parts of Czechoslovakia from Nazi occupation in 1945 and also contributed to Prague's liberation. He died in 1973.
The mayor said the general and his army were welcomed in Prague in 1945 but he based his proposal on Konev's post-war activities. Hrib cited Konev’s authorization of a Soviet bombardment of the Czech town of Mlada Boleslav a day after World War ended, an attack which killed some 150 Czech citizens, and his role in crushing the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary.After communism ended in 1989, Prague authorities stripped honorary citizenship from Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
Poor Check,they want handouts from uncle Sam.Haval wouldn't have approved it
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