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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.
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.
The Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer Heide (Sowjetisches Ehrenmal in der Schönholzer Heide) in Pankow, Berlin was erected between May 1947 and November 1949, and covers an area of 30,000 square metres (7.4 acres). The memorial contains the largest Soviet cemetery in Berlin, which is also the largest Russian cemetery in Europe outside of Russia.
Its prominent feature is the Soviet War Memorial (sometimes translated as the "Soviet Cenotaph"), built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It was opened four years after the war ended, on May 8, 1949.
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 ...
Winged Victory detail Victory Column in its original size and location, on the Königsplatz across from the Reichstag, in 1900 Polish flag raised on the top of Berlin Victory Column on May 2, 1945 French tricolor raised atop the Victory Column statue during the 1945 Allied Victory Parade View from the platform of the Victory Column towards the Brandenburg Gate