SOVIET WAR MEMORIAL IN TREPTOWER PARK (GERMANY) - UNIQUE BRONZE STATUE ON STAND

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SOVIET WAR MEMORIAL IN TREPTOWER PARK (GERMANY) - UNIQUE BRONZE STATUE ON STAND:
$290.00

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The Soviet War Memorial is a vast war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin\'s Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949. The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany.The monument is one of three Soviet memorials built in Berlin after the end of the war. The other two memorials are the Tiergarten memorial, built in 1945 in the Tiergarten district of what later became West Berlin, and the Soviet War Memorial Schönholzer Heide in Berlin\'s Pankow district.The focus of the ensemble is a monument by Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich: a 12-m tall statue of a Soviet soldier with a sword holding a German child, standing over a broken swastika. According to Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov, the Vuchetich statue commemorates the deeds of Sergeant of Guards Nikolai Masalov, who during the final storm on the center of Berlin risked his life under heavy German machine-gun fire to rescue a three year old German girl whose mother had apparently disappeared.[5]Before the monument is a central area lined on both sides by 16 stone sarcophagi, one for each of the 16 Soviet Republics (in 1940-1956 then up to the reorganization of the Karelo-Finnish SSR into the Karelian ASSR there were 16 \"union republics\") with relief carvings of military scenes and quotations from Joseph Stalin, on one side in Russian, on the other side the same text in German. The area is the final resting place for some 5000 soldiers of the Red Army.At the opposite end of the central area from the statue is a portal consisting of a pair of stylized Soviet Flags built of red granite. These are flanked by two statues of kneeling soldiers.Beyond the Flag monuments is a further sculpture, along the axis formed by the soldier monument, the main area, and the Flags, is another figure, of the Motherland weeping at the loss of her sons.In recent years, the ensemble has undergone a thorough renovation. In 2003 the main statue was removed and sent to a workshop on the island of Rügen for refurbishment. It was replaced on May 4, 2004.Made in: Russia, Old metalware itemCondition:Good!You received:metal bust + box + nice giftShip to locations:Worldwide! Shiping:70 USD (I am use Russian State Post air mail with tracking numberTerms of delivery: 10 days for Europe, 14-16 days for USA and other countries.Multiple purchasing:I can combine all yours sales. Shipping costs will be much less.

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