Τraveling Τimes 4 : Soviet War Memorial at Treptower Park , Berlin

Sometimes you get to see the most amazing things purely by chance or luck if you prefer.

The first day of Blockshow Europe had ended and I thought it was too early to go back home. Saw the map and noticed a park nearby. Great, I said to myself. I will go to that park and get some nice photos for my Steemit blog. Plus, I will walk a little bit.

At Treptower Park, there is a river, where people can sail.

And I found a lake, where to my surprise people were swimming.

I took enough photos for a good Steemit post and I was heading back home when I encountered a steel fence at it was at least 2 meters tall. What in the blue hell is that? Tried to see pass through the fence and I could barely distinguish something that looked like a statue.

It seemed like a tall one and I decided to explore the area to find out what it was. There was no way I could enter so I had to walk around it until I found a gate. And I found a gate and I entered it and what I saw was astonishing. An open space, bigger than a football ground and on the other side a huge statue on top of a hill.

This must be a war memorial of some kind. I quickly Google searched it and I was right. It is the Soviet War Memorial and these are parts of the wiki page.

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 7,000 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.

First you see two statues of soldiers kneeling to honor the fallen ones.

By each side there are lined on both sides by 16 stone sarcophagi, one for each of the 16 Soviet Republics, with relief carvings of military scenes and quotations.

The main focus of the monument is the 12m tall statue made by Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich that shows a Soviet soldier with a sword holding a German child, standing over a broken swastika.

The 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.

At the mount there is a room, but my Russian are limited and I don’t know what they say.

And when you go up at the mount you can marvel the whole monument.

And have a better look at the statue.

On the opposite side there is another statue that I guess shows a mother.

The whole monument is astonishing. It has a special atmosphere. It is silent as if you are not allowed to speak loudly and it makes you think.

About war and all the people that died…

Hopefully, some time we humans will learn to get along with each other without killing all those who seem different.

And until we no longer have to build war memorials …
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