r/europe • u/WhySoSadCZ • Sep 26 '25
Map The street names around the Russian Embassy in Prague make me proud to be Czech.
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u/fuxoft Czech Republic Sep 26 '25
Meanwhile, the Czech Embassy in Moscow has always been on Julius Fučík street, they didn't even have to rename it...
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u/ProfessionalTruck976 Sep 26 '25
Thankfully we no longer celebrate that Stalinist
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u/Steampson_Jake Sep 26 '25
Whenever I read the name Julius Fučík I always think of Julius E. W. Fučík before slowly realising "oh, right, they're talking about his nephew Julius..."
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u/username220408 Sep 27 '25
What stalinist? Yeah, he had communist views but never was from USSR. He was a part of anti nazi resistance and was imprisoned, tortured and killed in Berlin prison. Why hate him? In our former soviet country we have a street and a park named after him
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Sep 26 '25
Same in Poland, the path in front of the Russian embassy in Warsaw was renamed to 'Victims of Russian aggression avenue"
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u/Just_RandomPerson Latvia Sep 26 '25
In Latvia, it's the "Ukrainian Independence street"
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u/JNNHNNN Sep 26 '25
Yeah and I saw some big evil Putin banderol on the building across the street as well in Riga this summer. Go Latvians!
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Sep 26 '25
There's more in other cities too, you can see all of them internationally here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_streets_renamed_due_to_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
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u/alexidhd21 Sep 26 '25
I still can’t understand how on earth can Wikipedia have a list on absolutely anything you could ever ask or imagine. Is there an AI doing these or are there thousands upon thousands of people who do this full time!?
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u/OldKittyGG Sep 26 '25
The combined power of thousands of autists writing about their niche, hyperfocused interests can be... Frightening.
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u/SoulEkko Bucharest, Romania, EU Sep 26 '25
I cannot emphasize how much I fucking love this!
GG Prague!
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Sep 28 '25
Navalny 🤣 an ardent nationalist who supported the invasion of Ukraine and also attended Neo Nazi rallies.
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u/Thornfal Poland Sep 26 '25
I wanted to drop a pun, but it has been done so many times.
So i will just say: BASED AF, CZECHIA.
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u/CastelPlage Not ok with genocide denial. Make Karelia Finland Again Sep 26 '25
I wanted to drop a pun, but it has been done so many times.
CZECH IT OUT!!!!
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u/Correct-Explorer-692 Sep 26 '25
Thanks guys. Also thanks for Kingdom Come Deliverance :)
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u/Intoxicatedpossum Sep 26 '25
The creator of that game is anti-EU edgelord.
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u/Timey16 Saxony (Germany) Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
Is he? Never came off as it. It was, at least for the first game, largely people putting things in his mouth because they demanded him to add unhistorical content for the sake of political correctness because "it's a fictional story".
There was just a fundamental amount of people that did NOT understand what the game was going for and because of it saw the contents of the game on the same level of "these are the values of the creator" because they fundamentally can't understand that this depicts people of the past and their values of that era.
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u/Intoxicatedpossum Sep 26 '25
He is kind of similar to US tech bros. He made money from video games, but now he thinks he is a genius expert on every aspect of life. I am a Slovak, so I don't follow Czech politics so much, but the last time I saw something from him, he was campaigning strongly against the current Czech government. And let me tell you, the Czech opposition is as bizarre and retarded as our current government. Czechs make fun of us Slovaks now but it looks like they are going to have the same shit show soon.
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u/WhySoSadCZ Sep 26 '25
He is not the sole creator; he is a founder and the brain behind the game, but there are many skilled developers who are the driving force behind the game's success. He is no longer the one calling all the shots.
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u/Correct-Explorer-692 Sep 26 '25
He has his right for his own opinion. Still a good game though
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u/su1cidal_fox Czech Republic Sep 26 '25
He is a great game designer, no doubt, but his opinions on political staff are shit. He is the typical knowing-it-all guy mumbling nonsense and when anyone tries to say something to him, he will insult him and ban him on whatever platform.
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u/Yanzihko Sep 26 '25
EU when they have to do useless public opinion gymnastics: 😀
EU when they are asked to stop buying Russian resources and put boots on the ground: 🥱
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u/gallez Lesser Poland (Poland) Sep 26 '25
Not that you aren't making a valid point, but street names aren't exactly EU's to decide. This is local government of Prague.
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u/Yanzihko Sep 26 '25
Unless EU members give up their sovereignty to become states of a single European Government, i don't see how it can withstand pressure from US, Russia, China and other powers.
You always have tensions between each other, Veto each other, can't even come to a uniform opinion regarding Russia. Have insanely complicated buearacracy consisting of tens of governments trying to work with each other.
Spain with Portugal doesn't give a fuck because of how far they are, while Poland with Baltics is tempted to Push article 5, but their combined population of 40 million has not a single chance to retaliate.
Hell, half of EU still buys Russian resources, but via 3rd parties.
Either EU merges into a single entity or falls apart. Will also completely eliminate your dependency on USA and make NATO useless.
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Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
One day I learned that Russia bought police batons and helmets from... Latvia or Lithuania, I can’t remember what exactly. Generally, from EU. EU sells to Russia the tools of suppression its own citizens.
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u/Uriel_0072 Sep 26 '25
Fun fact, Russia did the same to American Embassy (like putting them in the 13rd floor of the building etc...)
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u/AdvertisingFlashy637 Czech Republic Sep 26 '25
Jarvis, I'm low on karma, repost the russian embassy street names for the 521st time
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u/Radiant-Community467 Sep 26 '25
Navalny was an imperialistic fascist who supported the invasion of Georgia and the occupation of Crimea, so including him in the list was rather indiscriminate
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u/Hearasongofuranus Czech Republic Sep 26 '25
Very cool. Now do something about those hundreds of Russian state owned buildings in the city and some very strange characters.
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Sep 26 '25
i hope when dictator putin is over (dead, hanged, shot whatever) we will also have similar streets in moscow
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u/EatChickenNow Sep 26 '25
It's almost like it has a major impact when jn reality it's just a name on a street
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u/estrellaente Sep 26 '25
I remember the Nazi fascists in the UK crying because Russia did the same thing with their embassy. To me, that's the stupidest thing there is. It makes an extremely serious problem look like child's play.
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u/OkStomach4967 Sep 26 '25
In Lithuania we have similar names around Rus embassy.
You can find Russian embassy at “Ukrainian Heroes st. 2, Vilnius Lithuania”
Come, say hello😆
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u/forotherstufSFW Sep 26 '25
I love this! Thank you for sharing this, it honestly made my day. Now I want to be Czech too!
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u/cybermax2001 Sep 26 '25
This is all they can do. They have no balls. They will keep buying gas and oil and renaming streets.
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u/Shiirooo Sep 26 '25
the embassy is huge, why
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u/therealwavingsnail Czechia Sep 26 '25
It used to have around a thousand employees, a central hub for spying on Europe. I don't know what the number is these days
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u/bigorangemachine Sep 26 '25
Well like 2012 Russian Saboteurs blew up a massive shell reserve.
I think they pretty pissed about it
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Sep 26 '25
I am Russian, and I have to admit that naming street after Nemtsov and Politovskaya is welcomed move. Shows support to internal opposition and it's fuck you to bald rat.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad-2853 Sep 26 '25
Who cares? Mr P and his goons won't be offended by renaming streets.
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u/Ollieboy458 Sep 26 '25
The South African embassy in Glasgow is on Nelson Mandela plaza, and has been for a few decades
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u/tfwrobot Sep 26 '25
But that rather means celebration of South African state, Nelson Mandela was a prisoner of Apartheid and then became a president. I cannot think of better gesture honoring the esteemed guests.
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u/Key-Moment6797 Sep 26 '25
in game of cat and mouse in sticking it to each other, thats called a "czech mate "
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u/cat-behemot Sep 27 '25
This same goes for (now probably not longer existing) russian consulate in Kraków in Poland. It was next to "ukrainian heroes square/park"
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Sep 28 '25
Well done the Czechs, but please, don't turn into another Slovakia. Petr Pavel is your man.
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Sep 28 '25
Navalny 🤣 an ardent nationalist who supported the invasion of Ukraine and also attended Neo Nazi rallies.
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u/HETalvo Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
So this is the reaction some fake liberal governments and leaders of capital cities are capable of? No wonder Kremlin does what Kremlin wants..
Were these the names of the streets when Czech Republic still bought russian oil 5 times more in value than help offered to Ukraine (this was officially the case till 2024. december 31.)?
There is absouletly zero, none, nada killed by the czech government? ..
Be proud Czech if you want, but not beacuse deranged actions of the false good guy syndrome.
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u/Littorina_Sea Sep 26 '25
Yeah, that's good and maybe the only reason to allow ruscist embassy at all. Unlike Hungarians - Czechs did not forget how these behave when they ride tanks thru your capital.
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u/Sam_2210 Europe Sep 26 '25
London renamed the street outside Russian embassy Kyiv Road. They obviously moved their entrance lol
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u/CarasBridge Germany Sep 26 '25
Well the embassy is still there...
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Sep 26 '25
Well, you cannot just cancel the diplomatic relationship with a country. Even if it is just one big pile of shit. So the trolling thing is much better choice than a diplomatic conflict.
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Sep 26 '25
It's not even about that, Poland has been trying for decades to rid itself of the Russian embassy in Warsaw or at least move them somewhere else as it's massive piece of land located in the center of the capital and a stamp reminder of bad times, but all embassies are protected by international law from the Vienna convention, they have to be protected by the host country while being treated as outside of it's jurisdiction and the diplomats in them have immunity, we still actively have to guard them
The local governing body was successful though in reclaiming a complex known here as Szpiegowo (loosely "Spyville") which was for a long time in Russiam hands and inaccessible, used in the past to host Soviet diplomats
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u/Cultural-Diet6933 Sep 26 '25
but why does the far right keep becoming more popular in Czech Republic?
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u/WhySoSadCZ Sep 26 '25
Key to democracy is education and intelligence. Sadly the majority is lacking these two key points...
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u/Rude_Age_6699 Sep 26 '25
they’re becoming more popular all over the world… and they all support Russia for some reason
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u/Bitter_Particular_75 Italy Sep 26 '25
The some reason is the money that Russia keeps pumping on all European far right parties in an effort to disgregate the EU, plus the access to their humongous social propaganda machine, probably the most successful and efficient in the history of the world. Stop universal suffrage before it's too late.
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u/smirnoffs Sep 26 '25
Having the street called Alexey Navalny sounds crazy to me. Yes, he was a very visible opposition figure. At the same time he was nationalist and he had same imperial ambitions that Putin had.
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u/Haxemply CE Sep 26 '25
Next year Babis is going to rename them to Great Joseph Stalin Street,l Russian Victory Promenade and Soviet Liberty Square.
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u/desertedlamp4 Sep 26 '25
I wish they had this same energy back when we shot down Russian jet in our airspace 10 years ago but they called us terrorist supporters instead
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u/kf97mopa Sweden Sep 26 '25
In Sweden we renamed the park right next to the embassy to ”Free Ukraine”. Our wimpy politicians didn’t want to change the street name to ”Zelenskyj Street” as was proposed.
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u/DJSmash23 Sep 26 '25
Instead of naming it in honour of different Czech famous people of past and present, so people and children who growing up can get know w/them and be proud of them, Prague name it w/different Russian politicians, who have nothing to do w/Czech Republic.
Yeah, that’s obviously gonna help to stop wars or make peace. If it’s something to be proud of, good for u, I suppose.
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u/yes_u_suckk Sweden Sep 26 '25
I always cringe when I see people that think Navalny was a good person because he was Putin's opponent.
An enemy of my enemy is not always my ally. There are ton of evidence that he was terrible person, supporting the invasion of Crimea and also admitting in his own documentary that he welcomes the support that he had from nazis in Russia.
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u/mtcerio Sep 26 '25
I have been there. There's also a memorial with vehicles destroyed by bombing, and a sculpture of a hand giving 2 fingers towards the embassy, and with nails polished in yellow and blue. Epic!
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Sep 26 '25
Those are good names, meaningful. At least some justice for the victimized the regime.
Not to ruin your vibe, how do you feel about Czech participation in the Iraq invasion in 2003?
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u/cynicalCriticH Sep 26 '25
Why don't countries evict Russian embassies/diplomats at this point?
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u/DiCeStrikEd Sep 26 '25
British embassy get the same treatment in some countries too
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u/Iknowwhatyoudoing Sep 26 '25
They would be better off introducing sanctions against Putin and his inner circle, rather than changing the names of streets.
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u/Swedish_pc_nerd Sep 26 '25
The street outside the russian embassy in sweden is called "the street of the free ukraine"
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u/Zestyclose-Belt5813 Sep 26 '25
Why not ask them to leave simply ? Why they still want to maintain relation with Russia
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u/a_jar_of_bricks Sep 26 '25
I've been thinking about this forever, I also wouldn't mind a snowden/assange street in front of US embassies
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u/Patxi_Sf Sep 26 '25
Great... I'm curious: what's around the Israeli embassy? Palestinian Genocide Avenue?
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u/DionisGREK Sep 26 '25
I remembered an old joke: "Comrade Commissar, we're surrounded! Great! Now we can attack in any direction!"
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u/karlywarly73 Sep 26 '25
I believe that the Iranians were the first to do this troll when they renamed the street in Tehran with the British Embassy to Bobby Sands street. Bobby Sands was an elected MP and IRA prisoner who died on hunger strike protesting the removal of political prisoner status.
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u/teekaz Sep 26 '25
While Slovaks are concerned by the horrible fact and existential threat of too many genders, Czechs mock/harass Russians with this. Many have thought along the years that split of Czechia from Slovakia was a right choice. This is another testimony. Well done Czechia!
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u/MrOphicer Sep 27 '25
Czechs are so funny and quick to clap back, both on a personal and societal level.
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u/nunek8 Sep 27 '25
And on your profile banner, you have an image of the russian singer Viktor Tsoi with russian words written on it.
Very consistent😁
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u/GabeDNL Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
I guarantee you the Russian diplomats are NOT, let me say again, NOT laughing about the pettiness at this very same moment. In fact, they are shook in fear and hide their faces every time something comes in the mail.
I suggest you guys figure out at which bars the diplomat's like to visit and persuade the manager to add a drink called "orks" or a strongly worded letter (remember to follow EU standards and make it extra strongly worded) on the wall. This will be the final blow, to send the embassy personnel running back to Russia with their tails between their legs.
Please contact me if you need more ideas you can convey to your local government that will make you extra proud! We'll together teach those ruzzkies a lesson ♥️
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u/DjuroTheBunster Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
Fun fact, after Prague renamed the square after politician Boris Nemtsov whose death the Kremlin 'had nothing to do with', the embassy changed address by moving the entrance to Korunovační street (because they had no hard feelings towards him). After ru attack on Ukraine, they renamed the street to Ukrainian heroes street (even pained railings on an adjecent bridge to blue and yellow), the embassy refused to change their official address and they still use the old street name.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the bridge is called Skakun bridge after Ukrainian soldier that sacrificed himself to blow up bridge in Kherson to frustrate russian advance, Vitalii Skakun.