A Mayor in Prague and the Removal of a Monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev

Editor’s Note: Below is an expanded version of a piece published in the current issue of National Review.

Ondrej Kolar was under police protection from April to July. He was also under police protection last year, in the fall. This year, he was in hiding for two weeks. Police detected threats to his life from the Russian government. There were also threats from Czechs — Czechs in sympathy with Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, of whom there are a great many.

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Editor’s Note: Below is an expanded version of a piece published in the current issue of National Review.

Ondrej Kolar was under police protection from April to July. He was also under police protection last year, in the fall. This year, he was in hiding for two weeks. Police detected threats to his life from the Russian government. There were also threats from Czechs — Czechs in sympathy with Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, of whom there are a great many.