It was bloody Soviet regime who thrusted these awards forcibly onto decent Czechs and Slovacs, which in reality resisted the Soviets, to imitate the illusion of their anti-fascist and pro-communist ideology favourable in post-WW2 Czechoslovakia.)
If anyone had rejected those medals, he undoubtfully would have been imprisoned in Gulag). There was no liberation of Czechoslovakia either - you know this. This was horrable occupation of Soviets.))))))) What a pity you was born so late - if only you were there in 1945... oh, how many Russian tanks had you destroyed from the Panzerfaust! Alas!