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Aerial view of the memorial with honor guards, West Berlin, 1983. The memorial was built from stonework taken from the destroyed Reich Chancellery.Built in a style similar to other Soviet World War II monuments that were once found all over the former Eastern Bloc, the memorial takes the form of a curved stoa topped by a large statue of a Soviet soldier.
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The Soviet War Memorial (German: Sowjetisches Ehrenmal) is a war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945.
A few days later, a crowd threw stones at Soviet buses driving towards the Soviet War Memorial, located in the Tiergarten in the British sector; the Soviets tried to escort the buses with armoured personnel carriers (APCs). Thereafter, the Soviets were only allowed to cross via the Sandkrug Bridge crossing (which was the nearest to Tiergarten ...
Such inscriptions have been generally removed in Soviet Union and Soviet block countries as part of de-Stalinization. A Soviet war memorial was erected in Plummer Park, West Hollywood, California in 2005. [10] The memorial depicts cranes in flight, a reference to a popular Russian-language song by Rasul Gamzatov. A refrain from the song is ...
Memorial to Polish Soldiers and German Anti-Fascists; Memorial to the Victims of the Deportation of 1944; Monument to the Conquerors of Space; Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders; Monument to the Liberator Soldier (Kharkiv) Monument to the Revolution of 1905; Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia ...