Soviet War Memorials

Soviet War Memorials may refer to a number of different memorials in different countries honoring the Soviet Union's Red Army sacrifice in the Second World War, specifically in the specific regions that were liberated. Some of the memorials have been relocated (Bronze Soldier in Tallinn) or removed (Monument to Brotherhood in Arms, Warsaw), some changed their meaning (Liberty Statue in Budapest).

Mass war grave of Soviet soldiers, Zhashkiv Raion (Region), Ukraine

Austria[]

Vienna

• Soviet War Memorial (Vienna)

Bulgaria[]

• Alyosha Monument, Plovdiv
• Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia

Czech Republic[]

• Monument to Soviet Tank Crews - first painted, later removed
• Monument in Kralovo Pole in Brno^[1]
• Statue of Ivan Konev - removed in 2020

Germany[]

• Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park), a memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin
• Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten), a memorial in Tiergarten, Berlin
• Soviet War Memorial (Schönholzer Heide), a memorial in Schönholzer Heide, Berlin

Estonia[]

• Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, relocated to Tallinn Military Cemetery in 2007

Hungary[]

• Liberty Statue (Budapest), the Soviet inscription has been replaced
• Liberty Square (Budapest)
• Hungarian-Soviet Friendship Memorial, now in Memento Park

North Korea[]

• Liberation Monument, Pyongyang

Poland[]

• Monument to Brotherhood in Arms, Warsaw (removed)
• Soviet Military Cemetery, Warsaw

After 2017, Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) government destroyed most of the Soviet War Memorials in Poland.^[2][3]

Romania[]

• Soviet War Memorials in Romania

Slovakia[]

• Slavín, Bratislava

Slovenia[]

• Spomenik zmage, Murska Sobota

One of the most iconic sights in Murska Sobota is the monument made from Carrara marble – a landmark that was dedicated to Soviet soldiers and Yugoslav Partisans. The Monument to the Liberators in the very center of Murska Sobota dates to 1945. Its authors are the Soviet military engineer Yuri Aronchik and the brothers Boris and Zdenko Kalin, two Slovenian sculptors who created the statues of the Partisan and the Red Army Soldier.

The monument was designed as a tomb that symbolizes the walls of the Kremlin, with an honor guard in front and an imposing obelisk above with a portrait of Lenin on a bronze medallion. The monument had initially been intended to hold the remains of Soviet soldiers who were killed in the Pomurje region, but their remains were later taken to mass graves at the cemetery in Murska Sobota.

United Kingdom[]

• , a memorial in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park (area surrounding the Imperial War Museum), London.^[4]

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Other[]

Joseph Stalin is still quoted in stone in German and Russian at least in Treptow^[5] and Vienna.^[6] Such inscriptions have been generally removed in Soviet Union and Soviet block countries.

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