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Soviet war memorial (Treptower park, Berlin)

the Soviet war memorial is a war memorial and military cemetery in Berlins Treptower park.it was built to the design of the Soviet architect yakov belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the battle of Berlin in April to may 1945..it opened four years after world war lol on may 8th 1949...the memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany.

the monument is one of the three Soviet memorials built in Berlin after the end of the war.
the other two memorial,built in 1945 in the tiergarten district of what later became west Berlin, and the Soviet war memorial schonholzer.
Heide in Berlins pankow district.

together with the rear front memorial in Magnitogorsk and the motherland calls in Volgograd, the monument is a part of a triptych.

History
at the conclusion of world war ll, three Soviet war memorials were built in the city of Berlin to commemorate Soviet deaths in world war ll, especially the 80,000 that died during the battle of Berlin...the memorials are not only commemorate,but also serve as cemeteries for those killed.....

A competition was announced shortly after the end of the war for the design of the park..the competition attracted 33 entries with the eventual design a hybrid of the submissions of the architect jakow s.belopolski sculptor yevgeny vuchetich painter Alexander A gorpenko and engineer sarra s.walerius...the sculptures reliefs and 2.5 meter diameter "flammenschalen" (flame bowls)...were cast at the kunstgieberei launchhammer in 1948.
the memorial itself was built in built in Treptower park on land previously occupied by a sports field...the memorial was completed in 1949..the stones and granite that were used in the construction came from the demolished new Reich chancellery......

around the time of the fall of the Berlin wall, unknown persons vandalized parts of the memorial with anti Soviet graffiti...the spartacist party claimed that the vandal's were right wing extremists and arranged a demonstration on the 3rd January 1990, which the PDS supported 250,000 GDR citizens participated.through the demonstrations the newly formed party stayed true to the communist roots of its founding party and attempted to gain political influence.pds chairman Gregor gysi took this opportunity to call for a constitution protection.for the GDR and questioned weather the AMT fur nationale sicherheit department of national security and the successor of the stati should be reorganized or phased out... historian stefen wolle believes that stasi officers may have been behind the vandalism since they feared for their jobs.....

as part of the two plus four agreements, Germany agreed to assume maintenance and repair responsibly for all war memorials in the country including the Soviet memorials in Treptower park however Germany must consult russian federation before undertaking any changes to the memorial.....

since 1995 an annual vigil has taken place at the memorial on may 9th organised by among others the bund Der antifaschisten treptowe the motto of the event is the day of freedom corresponding to victory Day a Russian holiday and the final surrender of German soilders at the end of world war ll

music: Soviet march by Shane Ivers - htts://www.silvermansound.com
& james hannigan-Red Alert 3 theme - Soviet march,
sound recording administered by : WMG INgroves.


Music: Soviet March by Shane Ivers - [ Ссылка ]

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