Chrast - Monument to the victims of the world wars

The monument to the victims of the world wars, which stands on the square in the park in front of the church, had a rather eventful history. Originally, the bronze statue of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, one of the founders of the Czechoslovak state, stood on the plinth, on which the names of the victims of the wars are now written (42 men who died in World War I and 1 men executed and tortured by the Nazis during World War II), which was ceremoniously revealed in…