On August 21 in Bolgrad, solemnly celebrated the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the operation "Danube" - the invasion of the troops of the Warsaw Pact countries to suppress the "Prague Spring". Participants in the Czechoslovak events were awarded jubilee medals issued by veteran organizations that are financed from the local budget.

"Bolgrad as a separate state. If decommunization is going on throughout the country, Bolgrade is revered for suppressing the insurrection in Czechoslovakia and allocating budgetary funds for the reconstruction of the mass grave of Soviet soldiers, "the editorial board of the newspaper" Oblvesti "writes on its Facebook page.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Operation Danube, the veterans of the Czechoslovak events of Bolgrad and the leadership of the district veterans' organizations laid flowers to the memorial to the soldiers-internationalists "Combat Brotherhood".

There was a rally here, during which participants shared their memories of those distant events. Almost every speaker stressed that in those years he was out of politics, he was only fulfilling his military duty.

The ceremony of awarding ceremony was crowned. Participants of the Czechoslovak events from the Bolgrad region were awarded jubilee medals "50 years of the joint operation of the Warsaw Pact" DUNAI "of the Committee of Veterans of War Organizations of veterans of the Odessa region. On the certificates to the medals, the signature of Lieutenant-General Nikolai Leifur, the head of the regional council of veterans. "Облвести" note that the activity of the veteran organization is financed from local budget funds.