The Czech city “punished” Stalin and Gottwald - the dead leaders were deprived of the honorary citizenship received in 1945
Members of the city council of the Czech city of Ceske Budejovice decided to revoke the title of “Honorary Citizen of the City” from former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and ex-president of communist Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald.
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This was reported by the publication Ceske Noviny.
It is noted that 23 out of 39 council members present at the meeting voted to deprive Stalin and Gottwald of their honorary citizenship.
“Different points of view were voiced at the discussion, some were directly opposite. Every representative was given the right to speak,” said the mayor of České Budejovice, Jiří Svoboda.
He recalled that Gottwald and Stalin received honorary citizenship of the city in 1945.
“I don’t know why there’s such emotion around this. Both received honorary citizenship at a time when there were reasons for it. It was only later, in the 1950s, that it became clear that they were not behaving optimally,” Svoboda said.
As the publication notes, 118 people received honorary citizenship of Ceske Budejovice, the last of them was USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
English version :: Read in English A Czech city "punished" Stalin and Gottwald – the dead leaders were stripped of the honorary citizenship they received in 1945.