“Fortress” Opava was liberated 80 years ago, the center heavily damaged by bombing

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Exactly eighty years ago Opava was liberated, and the city was being prepared for the arrival of the Soviet army under German control since January 1945. The Silesian metropolis was referred to as a fortress, and therefore civilian residents had to be evacuated from it. The Soviets also took advantage of intense bombing and shelling — Opava thus became one of the most destroyed cities domestically, with more than three-quarters of the structures…