Soviet War Memorial Treptow
Colossal bronze soldier cradling a child atop a broken swastika, above a mass grave of Red Army dead.
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This guide to the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park centers on the twelve-meter bronze soldier standing before you, and the story Marshal Vasily Chuikov spread after 1945 about Sergeant Nikolai Masalov crawling out under fire to save a child on a Berlin bridge in the last days of the war. It follows sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich's work on the monument and the roughly five thousand Red Army dead buried behind it. Stand back and take in the full height before you look closer at the base.
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