Commemorative plaque next to the house where Czechoslovak general Sergej Vojcechovský (Sergei Wojciechowski) was arrested by the SMERSH on 12 May 1945 in Konviktská Street in Prague, Czech Republic. Sergej Vojcechovský was a military commander in the White Army during the Russian Civil War and then lived in exile in Czechoslovakia and served in the Czechoslovak Army. He was arrested by the SMERSH (Soviet military counterintelligence service) and sent to Moscow shortly after the Red Army liberated Prague in May 1945. He died in prison on 7 April 1951 in the Ozerlag Labour Camp of the Gulag in T
Commemorative plaque next to the house where Czechoslovak general Sergej Vojcechovský (Sergei Wojciechowski) was arrested by the SMERSH on 12 May 1945 in Konviktská Street in Prague, Czech Republic. Sergej Vojcechovský was a military commander in the White Army during the Russian Civil War and then lived in exile in Czechoslovakia and served in the Czechoslovak Army. He was arrested by the SMERSH (Soviet military counterintelligence service) and sent to Moscow shortly after the Red Army liberated Prague in May 1945. He died in prison on 7 April 1951 in the Ozerlag Labour Camp of the Gulag in Tayshet in Irkutsk Region, Soviet Union. The commemorative plaque was installed on the building next to the house where he was arrested because the owners of the house refused the plaque.
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