I took these two shots near the hotel the other day - it was my first indication that I was in the former communist bloc :

That's a statue of Soviet Marshal Koniev, who was called (by the Soviets) - "the savior of Prague". Martin Kobetic, who's originally from this area, translated the text below for me. The gist of it is to name Koniev as a great hero of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.