Memorial to the Soviet War dead in Berlin - I dont know whether this is for military dead or for military and civilian - (approx 20,000,000 russian people died in WWII).

Yes there is a pidgeon on the Soviet soldiers head that I didnt notice until later. Yes I cloned some people out of this.

They built this in the part of berlin that fell under western influence so when the wall went up the soviet memorial was on the west side. I heard stories about the soviets going into the west to visit it in buses which were stoned by the locals throughout the cold war.

You get the feeling that this was designed to be very imposing and to inspire fear, not sure if it has the desired effect. The soviet father figure/soldier looks a bit partonising in my opinion.

I did a b/w version of this that I might upload later.


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