{"id":1196,"date":"2016-05-03T08:59:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/joyyzzaa\/?p=153"},"modified":"2016-05-03T08:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:59:49","slug":"das-sowjetische-ehrenmal-im-treptower-parksoviet-memorial-at-treptower-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/das-sowjetische-ehrenmal-im-treptower-parksoviet-memorial-at-treptower-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Das Sowjetische Ehrenmal im Treptower Park\/\/Soviet Memorial at Treptower Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2\/\/4<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/05\/Berlin-Soviet-Memorial-Treptower-Park-300x185-300x185.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" alt=\"Das Sowjetische Ehrenmal im Treptower Park\/\/Soviet Memorial at Treptower Park\" \/><br \/>\nThis burial site and monument was dedicated May 8th, 1949 as burial grounds for 5,000 of the 80,000 fallen Red Army soldiers in the Battle of Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>With massive statues and sarcophagi throughout, the central grounds of the memorial recount the story of the Red Army&#8217;s betrayal by the National Socialists with the invasion of Russia by German forces on June 22nd, 1941 as operation &#8220;Barbarossa&#8221; and their subsequent call to arms to defeat Fascist imperialism along the Eastern front. There are 16 limestone sarcophagi lining the both sides of the memorial, depicting, in finest Socialist Realist style, the story of Russian engagement in &#8220;The Great War&#8221;, from the invasion in 1941 until the &#8220;Liberation of Berlin&#8221; in 1945. Behind these sarcophagi are the<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/05\/sarcophagi-225x300-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Das Sowjetische Ehrenmal im Treptower Park\/\/Soviet Memorial at Treptower Park\" \/> graves of the 5,000 Soviet soldiers. The sarcophagi have both Russian and German inscriptions (eight on the right in Russian , eight on the left in German) relaying the timeline of events and rationale of the Soviet engagement in Stalin&#8217;s words. This memorial is a counterpart to the Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten, and there are commemorative events held here annually on the anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The central figure of the monument is an immense 36 foot tall statue of a Soviet soldier standing atop a shattered Swastika, sword in his right hand an<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/05\/soviet-war-memorial-statue-3-199x300-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Das Sowjetische Ehrenmal im Treptower Park\/\/Soviet Memorial at Treptower Park\" \/>d child cradled in his left arm. The pedestal, atop a large conical hill, serves as a tomb to the fallen Soviet soldiers. The interior of the tomb is a mosaic frieze depicting 16 Soviet figures representing the 16 Soviet republics. At my visit, there were dozens of flowers laid out and a candle burning at the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>At the opposite end is an grand entryway of red granite, interpreted as lowered Soviet flags.\u00a0 The main entrance a statue of Mother Russia is weeping, presumably for her son, the soldier standing at the opposite end. The whole memorial is lined with weeping birches and sycamore trees, which cast a deep, sweeping sense of mourning and tranquility, in an otherwise grandiose state-forward Soviet era monument.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/05\/treptowemorial-300x237-300x237.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" alt=\"Das Sowjetische Ehrenmal im Treptower Park\/\/Soviet Memorial at Treptower Park\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\/\/4<\/p>\n<p>This burial site and monument was dedicated May 8th, 1949 as burial grounds for 5,000 of the 80,000 fallen Red Army soldiers in the Battle &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}