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The names of 5,000 Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of Czechoslovakia from the Nazi invaders will be immortalized in the very near future, RIA Novosti reports. According to Alexei Tryakin, who is the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Czech Republic on military memorial work, almost 40 memorial tablets will appear in early summer. About 30 of them will be installed in Brno, another 10 - in Orzhehov.
The representative of the Ministry of Defense said this during a speech at a press conference on Wednesday, May 6.
In addition, inaccurate information indicated at the burial places of the Red Army soldiers at the Olshansky cemetery in the center of Prague will be corrected. Mass graves of soldiers who died in 1945 during the liberation of the city are situated there. Tryakin noted that specialists compared information on memorial tablets with archival information. It is planned to correct inconsistencies with documents in initials and surnames.
In total, about 60,000 Red Army soldiers who died in the struggle against fascism were buried in the Czech Republic.
The press conference was held as part of the Victory Roads historical and educational campaign organized by Rossotrudnichestvo and the Russian Military Historical Society. Previously, the action was held in five European capitals. Its participants spoke about the preservation of the true history and modern attempts to rewrite it, the cultural proximity of the Russian and Czech peoples, the common pages of the history of the two countries.
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