Prague should have a statue of Milada Horáková within a year

Prague - Within a year, a statue of Milada Horáková should be erected in the center of Prague. Its location will be decided by Prague 1 in cooperation with the Prague City Hall, the Milada Horáková Club, and the Confederation of Political Prisoners in the coming weeks. The initiator of the statue of the politician executed by the communist regime is Councillor Martin Jan Stránský from Prague 1, along with the aforementioned institutions. Kateřina Havelková informed ČTK about this on behalf of Stránský today.
Where exactly the statue will be placed is still unknown, but according to Stránský, an ideal location would be the park opposite the Petschek Palace, which housed the Gestapo from 1939 to 1945. On Thursday, June 27, it will be 63 years since Horáková was executed by the communists in the courtyard of the Pankrác prison. "Milada Horáková is a symbol of Czech nationality and national courage. Her statue is a message that everyone should fight for the rights of the nation and its people," says Stránský about the monument.
There are several monuments and memorial sites honoring the memory of Milada Horáková in Prague. "However, surprisingly, there is no statue of her in the capital city or anywhere else in the Czech Republic," warned Stránský. Once a location for the statue is found, a competition for its design will be announced. The organizers would like a realistic figure in life size. Three years ago, a monument by Olbram Zoubek was unveiled in Prague 5, which is a stylized figure in line with Zoubek's work. A few years ago, a monument with a bust of Horáková was also unveiled in Pankrác.
The Petschek Palace was occupied by the German secret state police (Gestapo) immediately after the occupation and established its main office there in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It was there that Czech patriots and resistance members, including Milada Horáková, were tortured and interrogated. She endured the interrogations and torture without yielding from her positions, was sent to a concentration camp, but survived. Her life, however, ended just a few years after the war. With the same determination as against the fascists, she fought against the communists. They sentenced her to death in a fabricated trial to serve as a warning and executed her on June 27, 1950.
In 1991, President Václav Havel posthumously awarded Milada Horáková the Order of T.G. Masaryk First Class. The day of her death became the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Communist Regime. In 2007, Milada Horáková was posthumously honored with one of the highest military awards - the Defense Minister's Cross of Merit.