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Some German scholars working on Soviet memorial sites have tried to strike a middle ground by updating Red Army monuments to reflect political changes and new academic research.
Poland has begun demolishing a Soviet-era memorial to Red Army soldiers, the latest in a series of monuments that have been pulled down in Central and Eastern Europe amid growing hostility toward ...
Police officers ask a man wearing a shirt showing hammer and sickle to close his jacket outside the tomb of the Soviet War memorial at the park in Treptow, during the 78th anniversary of Victory ...
Estonia is removing a Soviet-era monument in a border town in Estonia’s Russian-speaking part with the Baltic country’s prime minister saying it represents a risk for public order.
A new bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been unveiled in Volgograd ahead of Wednesday's 80th anniversary of the Red Army's defeat of Nazi invaders in the bloodiest battle of World War Two.
In the battle royal over where to put the World War II Memorial, I was trying to decide which side I was on: Pierre L'Enfant and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.'s, or Tom Hanks and Bob Dole's. Tough ...
On 20 June, a wreath-laying ceremony was held at the Soviet war memorial in Mannswörth, Schwechat, Lower Austria. Attending the ceremony were heads of diplomatic missions of Belarus, Kazakhstan ...
Tanks also flank the a Soviet war memorial not far from the Brandenburg Gate. The memorial is also the final resting place for at least 2,000 fallen Red Army soldiers who lost their lives in the ...
Thirty members of the Duke community traveled across Berlin and Prague together, seen here at the Soviet War Memorial at Berlin's Treptower Park. Staff rides are a staple in Duke’s Program in American ...
A military memorial at the burial site of Soviet soldiers killed during World War II was reopened in Hungary after restoration work was completed, TASS reports. It is located in Szarbogard, several ...
In 2007, the relocation of the so-called Bronze Statue of Tallinn, another Soviet war memorial, from a city park led to days of rioting. One person died and more than 1,000 arrests were made, ...