Soviet_War_Memorials

List of Soviet war memorials

List of Soviet war memorials

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Soviet war memorials are memorials commemorating the activities of Soviet Armed Forces in any of the wars involving Soviet Union, but most notably World War II. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of the memorials, especially the ones dedicated to the activities of Soviet Armed Forces in former Soviet Bloc countries during World War II, have been removed, relocated, altered or have had their meaning reinterpreted (such as the Liberty Statue in Budapest).

A memorial to the fighters for the Soviet Power in the Far East (Vladivostok, Russia, 2004)

Austria

Soviet War Memorial in Vienna

Belarus

Bulgaria

China

  • Monument to the Soviet Army Martyrs, Changchun [zh]
  • Monument to the Soviet Army Martyrs, Harbin [zh]
  • Monument to the Soviet Back Baikal Tank Battalion Soldiers [zh], Shengyang
  • Monument to the Soviet Army Martyrs in the Lüshun Russian Military Cemetery [zh]

Czech Republic

Statue of Ivan Konev
  • Monument to Soviet Tank Crews (first painted, later removed)
  • Statue of Ivan Konev (removed in 2020)
  • Monument to the Liberation of the City by the Red Army in Hradec Králové [cs] (removed in 1991)
  • Monument to the Red Army soldiers in Luková [cs]
  • Red Army Memorial (Olomouc) [cs]
  • Red Army Statue (Adamov) [cs]
  • Red Army Statue (Keblice) [cs]
  • Red Army Statue (Šlapanice) [cs]

Germany

Estonia

Bronze Soldier of Tallinn in Tallinn Military Cemetery

Hungary

Lithuania

Statues of Soviet World War II soldiers in Antakalnis Cemetery, Vilnius (removed in 2022)

Latvia

Monument to the Soviet Prisoners of War in Salaspils [ru]

North Korea

Poland

After 2017, Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) government destroyed most of the Soviet War Memorials in Poland.[6][7]

  • Cemetery of the Soviet Army Soldiers in Braniewo [pl; ru]
  • Monument to Brotherhood in Arms, Warsaw (removed in 2011)
  • Monument of Gratitude to the Soldiers of the Red Army In Warsaw [pl; ru] (removed in 2018)
  • Monument of Gratitude to the Red Army in Buczkowice [pl] (removed in 2018)
  • Monument of Gratitude to the Red Army in Bobolice [pl] (removed in 2022)
  • Monument "To the Destroyers of Hitlerism" [pl; ru] (removed in 2019)
  • Monument in Honor of the Red Army in Chrzowice [pl] (removed in 2022)
  • Monument of Gratitude and Brotherhood of the Soviet Army and the Polish Army in Ciechocinek [pl] (removed in 2014)
  • Monument of Gratitude in Dąbrowa Górnicza [pl] (removed in 2018)
  • Monument of Gratitude to the Soviet Army in Szczecin [pl; ru] (removed in 2017)
  • Soviet Military Cemetery, Warsaw

Romania

Tajikistan

Ukraine

Other

Joseph Stalin is still quoted in stone in German and Russian at least in Treptow[8] and Vienna.[9] Such inscriptions have been generally removed in Soviet Union and Soviet block countries as part of de-Stalinization.


References

  1. "Estonian government relocates Narva tank monument". Eesti Rahvusringhääling. 16 August 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  2. "Then And Now: Soviet Monuments Disappear Across Poland". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 23 October 2020.
  3. Kriza, Elisa. (2018). The Stalin plaque in Vienna: hiding and showing history. European Review of History. 26. 1-19. 10.1080/13507486.2018.1505832.

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