Přemysl Ottokar II Square in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Archival photoPRAGUE, May 10. The leadership of the South Bohemian city of Ceske Budějovice decided on Monday to deprive the status of an honorary citizen of the city of the USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in connection with her support for the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the online publication Idnes reported .» The first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who in 1979 was awarded the status of an honorary citizen of the city of Ceske Budejovice, is no longer such. The municipal authorities of the city deprived Tereshkova of this honorary status due to the fact that she, as a State Duma deputy, actively supported the military actions of Russia in Ukraine. 32 out of 45 members of the municipality voted for this decision, six were against, the rest abstained, «the report says. Earlier, in 2017, the municipality deprived the Soviet leader Josef Stalin and the leader of the Czechoslovak communists of the period of the late 1940s — early 1950s by Klement Gottwald. Also the decision m authorities of Prague was deprived of the status of an honorary citizen of the city of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev. The main reason for this was the post-war activities of the marshal, who, in particular, led the suppression of the anti-communist uprising in Hungary in 1956. Russia gets money, France loses it
