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"On May 6th 1945 the city of Plzeň was liberated by the U.S. Army." I'm not proud about the quality of this photo but I wanted to publish it because of informational reason.

This is a memorial in the city of Plzeň.

The American Army led by George S. Patton liberated the western Bohemian part of Czech protectorate in 1945, but because of the result of Jalta conference (where American president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill decided that the Czechoslovakia will fall after the war into the influence of their good friend Josif V. Dzugasvili aka Stalin and his Soviet Empire) his army stopped there and the rest of the Czech protectorate had to wait for Russians. It's hard to judge this decision as the war conditions were not standard but it must be said that it wasn't the Patton's fault so he and his army really deserve this memorial. Only the word "America" is not so properly chosen.

The Jalta conference was second example of how the fortune of Czech lands in 20th Century was decided by other nations. First time it was French PM Edouard Daladier and British PM Arthur N. Chamberlain (yes, British again) who decided to abolish the pacts and give the Czechoslovakia to their mates Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini on conference in Munich, 1938. Nice work boys, there wouldn't be any WWII without you. In the light of this, Czechs could be thankful even to United States.