Constitutional Court rejects man’s demand for return of Konev statue to Prague 6

The Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal from a man who did not agree with the removal of the statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev from a square in Prague 6 and demanded the return of the monument to its original place. The man’s complaint was earlier rejected by both the Municipal Court in Prague and the Supreme Administrative Court. The Constitutional Court ruled that the man’s demand that he be given free access to the statue is ungrounded. It said the district’s decision to remove the Konev statue did not interference with any of the man’s fundamental rights.

The statue of Marshal Konev, who led the Red Army forces during the liberation of Prague from Nazi occupation, was erected by the communist authorities in the 1980s. It was removed in 2020, following criticism regarding Konev's repressive role within the Communist bloc in the decades that followed.