[CondoleezzaProtege]

“The previous plate was actually lying,” said Ondřej Kolář, mayor of the Prague Six municipality, where the monument and Russia’s embassy sit. “When Soviet troops arrived in Prague on 9 May 1945, there was only one SS division here and that was on the outskirts of the city. The Wehrmacht had surrendered to the forces of the Prague uprising, and left the previous day.

“The city was basically free, but that wasn’t something Soviet propaganda wanted to use. We are not denying the role of the Red Army or saying the Soviets didn’t suffer. They suffered a lot – but not in Prague.”

[Snickering Hound]

Prague had been freed in the ‘Prague Uprising’.

German troops negotiated and were able to march to Patton’s army to surrender but were disarmed.

Soviet troops ‘liberated’ Prague on May 9, losing 10 men to SS holdouts.

It wasn’t the Battle of Berlin or Budapest by any means.

[Kozak]

Screw the Russians. If the Czechs want to tear down every Soviet era monument, more power to them.

[VR-21]

“The unmistakable change in the appearance of a monument important to preserving the memory of our nation’s heroic struggle against Nazism creates a dangerous precedent,” said Nikolay Bryakin, an embassy spokesman.

Wonder how much he wants to preserve the memory of his nations alliance with the Nazis.

[VR-21]

“The unmistakable change in the appearance of a monument important to preserving the memory of our nation’s heroic struggle against Nazism creates a dangerous precedent,” said Nikolay Bryakin, an embassy spokesman.

Wonder how much he wants to preserve the memory of his nations alliance with the Nazis.

[proxy_user]

Konev was an Russian peasant who was tough as iron, and who rose to become a major Soviet general. He thought nothing of sending tens of thousands of his troops to almost certain death against the Germans. Refined feelings cannot be expected in such a character.

[BenLurkin]

The Red Army never liberated anything.

It raped, it plundered, and it murdered.

And of course, the Soviets occupied and subjugated half of Europe.

But liberated? Never.