Soviet War Memorial
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December 5, 2024
Prior to the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the GDR, the monument was guarded by a guard of the 6th motorized rifle brigade of the Berlin GSVG. In 1986-1987, I was lucky enough to serve as part of this guard. I wonder if our demob plaque has been preserved on the birch tree. There are a lot of memories so far.
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May 18, 2019
I was there on Victory Day on May 9, 2019. Everything is very solemn! A sea of flowers! It is clear that this place is well cared for. Order. Protection of the local police. I even shed tears of emotion. And I decided that today we will not face the Germans. And tomorrow we'll see.
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December 8, 2018
In memory of the 75,000 Soviet soldiers who died during the storming of Berlin, three monuments were built in Berlin at the end of World War II. These memorials are not only monuments to the Great Victory in Germany, but also military graves.
The central memorial is the monument to the Soldier-Liberator in Berlin's Treptow Park. In addition to the monument in the Tiergarten, another monument to fallen Soviet soldiers is located in Schoenholzer Heide, in the Pankov district.
Every year on May 8, a solemn wreath-laying ceremony is held at the graves of fallen soldiers.The monument to fallen soldiers was erected by the decision of the Military Council of the 1st Belorussian Front, designed by sculptors L. E. Kerbel and V. E. Tsigal and architect N. V. Sergievsky on the then Charlottenburg Highway (now 17 June Street).
The monument was inaugurated by a parade of Allied troops on November 11, 1945.For many years, the territory of the memorial was a Soviet enclave on the territory of the former British sector of the occupation of Berlin. Before the final withdrawal of the Group of Soviet Troops in Germany (ZGV) in 1994, a solemn guard of the 1st motorized rifle company of the 133rd separate motorized rifle battalion of the 6th separate motorized rifle Brigade stood at the monument.
On November 7, 1970, neo-Nazi Ekkehard Weil shot at Soviet soldier Ivan Shcherbak, who was guarding the Memorial. Shcherbak was wounded twice[4]. The military court of the British zone of West Berlin sentenced Weil to 6 years in prison[5].
After 1994, the memorial structure was transferred to the city. Germany and the Russian Federation have concluded bilateral agreements on the care of military graves.On August 1, 2016, the Central Bank of Russia issued a five—ruble coin from the series "Capital Cities of states liberated by Soviet troops from Nazi invaders" dedicated to Berlin, the reverse of which depicts a memorial to fallen Soviet soldiers in the Bolshoy Tiergarten Park in Berlin. The number of copies is two million.
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