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Wikipedia: The Soviet War Memorial (sometimes translated as the Soviet Cenotaph), 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 the war ended on May 8, 1949, and served as the central war memorial of East Germany.
![[A view into the pedestal]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Treptower_Park_Pedestal_s.jpg "A view into the pedestal")
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![[Soviet 1-ruble commemorative coin, issued in 1965]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/URSS_1_rublo_ventennale_vittoria_WW2_s.jpg "Soviet 1-ruble commemorative coin, issued in 1965")
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![[Visitors at the 65th Victory day celebration laying flowers.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/9mai_treptow_015_s.jpg "Visitors at the 65th Victory day celebration laying flowers.")
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![[Entrance Portal]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Treptower_Symbol_s.jpg "Entrance Portal")
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from Treptower |
![[The Motherland statue]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Berlin_alt_treptow_sowjetisches_ehrenmal_20050321_818_s.jpg "The Motherland statue")
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