On Monday, May 6, we held a festive launch of a new popularization book by historians Petr Blažek and Jiří Fidler Koněv in the hall of Písecká brána in Prague 6 . The Soviet Marshal and his Prague Monument (Museum of Memory of the 20th Century, Prague 2024).
In the first part of the publication, historian Jiří Fidler describes the life story of Marshal Konev, focusing on his military career. In the second part, historian Petr Blažek presents the history of the Prague monument, which was created as a propaganda gesture several years after Koněv's death. The book contains many interesting facts, documents, photographs, and above all puts the whole story of the 20th and 21st centuries into context. The foreword was written by architectural historian Zdeněk Lukeš.
Photo gallery by Marta Myšková, photographer of the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century:
