Abstract
In 2019, the Czech Republic celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which put an end to the 41-year socialist period in Czech history. This event, the liberation of Prague by the Red Army in 1945, and especially the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968 largely determine the attitude of modern Czechs toward the USSR and Russia. Opinion to the deployment of Warsaw Pact troops in 1968 is clearly negative; the other two dates are causing heated debate. For instance, not only the fate of the monument to Marshal Konev and the intention to perpetuate the memory of the Vlasov army in one of Prague’s districts have provoked a severe reaction in Russia, this issue has also caused a debate in Czech society. The ambiguous past still remains part of current politics in the Czech Republic.
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