Tomas Sniegon Centre for Languages and Literature, University of Lund, Sweden Soviet Marshal Konev’s Posthumous Battle of Municipal District Prague 6 Abstract: is text deals with the analysis of the removal of the monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev from the Prague 6 district, an important part of the capital of the Czech Republic. e given monument was built during the Soviet occupation of Czech- oslovakia in 1980 and removed in 2020. e primary reason for the removal was the dissatisfaction of the political representation of Prague 6 and the leadership of the capital city with Russia’s policy towards Ukraine aſter 2014, but this – for another part of Czech society very controversial – step was mainly explained by other, vicarious reasons. Given that the fate of the statue was decided mainly by the representatives of a single district in the Czech capital, special aention here is given to the relationship between local, urban and national decision-making. Additionally, the focus includes the relationship between this object and the history of the capital, the current Czech Republic, and the former Czechoslovakia, i.e. a multinational state in which Konev was initially revered and post- humously honoured. e role of new historical facts is also of interest – those which were revealed only aſter the narrow, Communist interpretation of history loosened its grip, as well as the final decisions, and to what extent the historical consciousness of those who made the final decision was influenced by the motives of predecessors from the post-war period. Last but not least, conditions unique to the context of the Czech Republic are discussed in terms of their potential application in assessing issues related to sites of memory in the post-war and Communist period. Keywords: Soviet Monuments, Post-Communist memory, Czech historical culture, memory of World War Two, Czech politics of memory At the beginning of April 2020, a statue representing a man considered to be one of the most important military leaders of World War Two, was removed from a small square in the sixth district of the Czech capital, Prague. It was a three-and-a-half- meter-high bronze figure of Ivan Stepanovich Konev (1897–1973), Marshal of the Soviet Union. His remains are buried in the Kremlin Wall on Moscow’s Red Square.