The former Red Army Hall, National Memorial on Vítkov Hill, Prague
The National Memorial complex was originally constructed in the 1920s/30s to honour World War I Czechoslovak legionaries. After 1948, it was used to promote the Communist regime and altered by them. Between 1953 and 1962 it housed the embalmed body of communist Czechoslovakia's first communist president, Klement Gottwald. The building is now part of the National Museum and is an interesting place to visit. There are also great views from the top of the building.

This room was called the Red Army Hall and features mosaic images of Soviet WWII soldiers. A stair has now been formed from the room to go down to the rather eerie basement laboratory in which Klement Gottwald's preserved body was lowered down to for maintenance when it wasn't on display in it's glass sarcophagus,
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