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West Berlin Monument
The Russian writer Fyodor Dostoievski said and wrote somewhere that beauty saves the world, and says that “this land from the shell to the intestines is drenched in tears.” Please excuse me a little, “drenched in blood and tears.”
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Those suit a city like Berlin.
Berlin is not classical, it is not a thousand years old, there are no majestic mountains, rivers, magnificent temples, Berlin lets tourists see their wounds as still young skin: Berlin is divided.
Berlin was divided by the word that started World War II, which today the Berliners and Germans celebrate 75 days of liberation from the Nazi regime.
75 years how much love.
In the summer of 1945, the first peaceful days, in the land of the “miraculous years” in Heinrich Heine’s poem reported by Mirror magazine, Der Spiegel in a report.
What did the Germans do in the summer of 1945, disappointed, exhausted, ashamed?
6 million Germans died during the war, 6 million Jews were killed, about 60 million died worldwide. Germany is in ashes and rubble.
One thing is clear: ending the war is not the end of pain.
But one thing was memorable: Hans Modrow, many years later, would be the chairman of the last East German ministerial council to meet with a Soviet Red Army soldier, who belonged to Heine’s poetry.
1943 Tehran Conference, then Potsdam Conference 1945, 4 powers, Russia, England, France, USA USA They agreed to divide Germany and divide Berlin. West Berlin was entirely within the Brandenburg state of East Germany, and since August 13, 1961 within the Walls of Misfortune: Schandmauer.
In the United States, where children are controlled, many children are allowed to eat gum for the first time.
In the Soviet-controlled areas, there were unforgettable robberies and rapes.
On May 15, 1945, journalist R. Andreas Friedrich visited a girlfriend. He sat crouched in the chair: “I have to kill myself. How can I live longer?” – “so terrible?” “Seven guys, seven guys take turns. Like animals.”
In Berlin hospitals alone that summer they treated approximately 95,000 to 130,000 women who were raped. A 12-year-old girl was killed by Russian soldiers and thrown out of a window “like throwing a bag of cement.” This girl Hannelore will later be the wife of Prime Minister Helmut Kohl, conductor of the German Unified Symphony in 1989-1990.
Do you remember who Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is? This general fought against Viet Minh, the first Indochina war. Her son also left his body in Indochina. In 1952 he became seriously ill, returned to France and died of cancer.
But we return to the summer of 1945. The French rulers in Germany captured the men of Wasserburg am Bodensee by painting the fence with three colors of the French flag: blue-white-red. On France’s National Day on July 14, General de Lattre de Tassigny led his army through the commune, glorifying himself as a grand duke.
But it was nice, and the same day the city of Bad Salzbrunn read the German slogan: “Special order. German residents can move to the West Bank. Each German can carry up to 20 kg of luggage. The apartment must be open, the key to the room and house key must be connected. ” Bad Salzbrunn is now the city of Szczawno-Zdrój in Poland.
The inhabitants of Germany, not only in Poland, but also in Czechoslovakia, in Hungary, were also expelled and, back to their homeland, Germany, they were assaulted and raped.
After World War II, nearly 4 million people of German descent returned to their homeland from Eastern Europe, Liaoning, and post-Soviet countries.
From back in time, let’s go back to today’s space and see a different perspective, what happens in a small German setting: the capital, Berlin, with two Soviet monuments. One in the west and one in the east of Berlin.
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West Berlin Monument: on both sides of the monument there are two T34 tanks
West Berlin Monument
This monument is located on the street of June 17 (this day, in 1953, East Berliners rebelled against the government. The East Berlin government, with the help of Soviet tanks, was easily crushed).
To the right of the monument, a few hundred meters away, is the Brandenburger Tor gate, which separates East-West Berlin, the shameful wall between these two works.
On both sides of the monument, two T34 tanks are placed. Behind, a few hundred meters, is the German parliament building.
Built after the Nazi victory, inaugurated in November 1945, it must be said that it is the pride of the Soviet Communists. The three main powers that won the other battle: United States, United Kingdom and France, did not find any significant monument?
But also to say that it is a beautiful monumental, monumental and arrogant. Behind the monument is a cemetery, with the graves of nearly 2,500 Red Army soldiers.
The monument later, in East Berlin, built later, and even more spectacular.
Spread over an area of 9 hectares, in Treptower Park. Germany has no bigger monument / monument than that. Built in 4 years, the monument inaugurated on this day 71 years ago: May 8, 1949.
From the outside, one passes through one of the two Soviet triumphal gates and finds, first, the statue of the Mother of the Fatherland.
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Motherland statue.
The mother bowed her head, with long-lasting pain that never fades.
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Statue in East Berlin: a soldier holds a sword in one hand and a girl in the other
In the future we will see two statues of Soviet officers, kneeling on one knee, bowing their heads and praying for the Soviet children who fell during World War II.
80,000 Soviet soldiers died to liberate Berlin. The monument we have here has the grave of 7,000 of them.
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A woman at a Soviet monument in East Berlin on May 9, 2017
And in front of us is the main statue of the monument area. From the base of the statue to the top of the statue is probably the equivalent of a 10-story house! The soldier held a sword in one hand, held a girl in the other, and stepped on the fascist cross.
I stopped on the path that led to the statue, which was the two rows of reliefs, reading the praises of Marshal Stalin’s Soviet army. In those days were only Stalin’s words worth it?
Tears dried quickly, blood slowly dried, Stalin’s greatness was cynical and devastated, the Soviet Union ceased to exist, leaving the pain of humanity before, during and after each war!
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