In front of the Russian embassy in Prague, it was “decided” to join Královka to the Czech Republic
Monday’s recessionist action in Prague 6 was a reaction to the internationally unrecognized vote in those parts of Ukraine controlled or occupied by the Russian Federation. “We have decided that we will also announce a referendum and exert pressure so that the historical city of Královce can be annexed to the Czech Republic,” explained the organizer of the event and student of the Prague Faculty of Philosophy, Tomáš Kotrouš. “We just want to make fun of Russia in Czech,” he added.
The original idea of connecting the Czech Republic and the Kaliningrad region is based on history. The capital of the region, today’s Kaliningrad, Královec in Czech, was founded in the 13th century by crusaders in honor of the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II. For centuries Kaliningrad was part of Prussia, later Germany, after World War II the area fell to the Soviet Union.
The king is ours! The Czechs are having fun with the referendum and are looking forward to the annexation of the Russian coast
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Make Královec Czech Again
More than 7,000 people showed interest in the event on social networks, several hundred citizens arrived at the site.
“I have a lot of friends in Ukraine, and the situation with the referendum there is absolutely absurd, just like the whole situation in the last six months. This is such a nice way to show that we are a peaceful nation and we want to show that the situation is serious and important,” one of the event’s participants told Novinka.
A married couple from Prague also arrived with the sign “The King is ours!” “We wanted to remind you that fighting is still going on in Ukraine and that people are dying there. Women, children and civilians. People forget this and take it for granted. Today, 400 people will die there, and it is taken as a normal part of life.” “We have reached from sea to sea, so why should we remain a landlocked state,” a woman participant described her opinion.
“I found out about it on Twitter, where it broke. Of course, it needs to be taken with exaggeration, but I think it shows well how the Russian Federation is behaving today,” explained one of the students at the event.
There were also speeches at the meeting. The word was used, for example, by the prominent Czech historian-Slovakist and former dean of Charles University, Michal Stehlík, who deals with the history of the Czech and Slovak environment from the end of the 19th century to contemporary history. In his speech, he condemned the referendums themselves, as well as the Russian ruling party’s arguments regarding the events in Ukraine.
Member of the European Parliament Tomáš Zdechovský from KDU-ČSL also uses remote support.
The third charge of the King. The fight continues!
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The fun progresses. The American embassy offered the annexing Czechs the aircraft carrier Karel Gott
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A referendum with a clear result
The organizers also prepared an improvised ballot box on the spot, in which the participants cast their votes in the referendum, the result of which was clear in advance – similar to the staged referendums on the annexation of Ukrainian territories to Russia.
The event also had a charitable touch. The organizers teamed up with the Gift for Putin campaigns and sold t-shirts with the words “Fuck You, Putin” on the spot for any donation. The proceeds from the sale of the t-shirts should go to the account of the Ukrainian embassy.
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