Tuesday 23 September 2014

Olomouc, Czech Republic: The Russian War Grave Memorial

We were walking up to Olomouc city centre from our small hotel when we came across the Russian war memorial below:



As can be seen in the picture above, four Russian graves lie in front of the memorial.  After a quick internet search, I've just discovered that these graves contain the remains of four Soviet soldiers who died fighting in Olomouc on 8th May 1945.

Zoomed in on the red star at the top of the monument (below) so that I could send this shot to my old mate Dave Dealy who is intrigued by this kind of Soviet memorabilia:


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