Hundreds honour war dead at Communist-organised memorial

Several hundred people honoured those who died during WWII at an event at Prague’s Olšany cemetery on Saturday organised by the Communist Party. Chairman Vojtěch Filip paid tribute to the Red Army soldiers who had died during the liberation of Czechoslovakia, adding that whichever armies had freed particular parts of the country had no impact on the results of elections in 1946. Czechs used to mark May 9 as the end of WWII but in the early 1990s switched to May 8, in line with Western Europe.

Author: Ian Willoughby