US-Soviet Demarcation Marker (Demarkační Čára)
Details:
On a roadside pull-of, adjacent to roadway wall.
The marker is a concrete pad with an inscribed marble piece depicting the actual demarcation line between US and Soviet controlled areas; an information sign also is present.
The marker shows the where the US-Soviet line of control, or demarcation line, that separated zones of control in post-war WW2 Czechoslovakia in 1945.
Monument Text:
The text on the marker is written in Czech, Russian and English and reads:
7.5.1945
DEMARKAČNÍ ČÁRA
ДЕМАРКАЦИОННАЯ ЛИНИЯ
DEMARKAČNÍ ČÁRA
THE LINE OF DEMARCATION
The text on the information sign is written in Czech, Russian and English and reads:
V TĚCHTO MÍSTECH DOŠLO POPRVÉ NA ÚZEMÍ ČESKOSLOVENSKÉ REPUBLIKY K SETKÁNÍ ARMÁD PROTIFAŠISTICKÉ KOALICE - ARMÁDY AMERICKÉ, KTERÁ OSVOBODILA ROKYCANY V PONDĚLÍ 7. KVĚTNA A RUDÉ ARMÁDY, KTERÁ VSTOUPILA DO BORKU VE STŘEDU 9. KVĚTNA 1945. NA VĚČNOU PAMÁTKU NAŠICH OSVOBODITELŮ S PODĚKOVÁNÍM ZA VŠECHNY OBĚTI.
HERE THE FIRST MEETING ON THE TERRITORY OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THE ARMIES OF THE ANTIFACIST COALITION – THE US ARMY, WHICH LIBERATED ROKYCANY ON MONDAY 7. MAY AND THE RED ARMY, WHICH ENTERED BOREK ON WEDNESDAY 9. MAY 1945. IN ETERNAL MEMORY OF OUR LIBERATORS AND IN GRATITUDE FOR ALL THEIR SACRIFICES.
