Prague, May 9 (CTK) – An unknown person or persons placed a porcelain toilet bowl at the site of the removed statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev in a square in Prague 6 and Prague police are now investigating the incident, police spokesman Jan Daněk told CTK today.
The municipality had the toilet bowl removed, Prague 6 Mayor Ondřej Kolář told CTK. He condemned the incident, saying it is especially contemptible that it occurred during the days celebrating of the WWII.
Later critics, however, pointed to Konev’s role in the suppression of the Hungarian uprising against the Communist regime in 1956, the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
The monument is set to become the subject of talks between Russian and Czech representatives under a bilateral agreement on friendly relations and cooperation from 1993.