Warrior Liberator

Mediums: bronze.
Location: Berlin Treptower Park (Germany).

The memorial site was chosen as a place for the monumental work – almost five thousand soldiers and officers who died during the battles for Berlin are buried next to the bulk mound. According to the authors, the monument was to embody the high nobility of their liberation mission – there were only a dozen documented cases of soldiers rescuing German children. The bronze fighter symbolically tramples on a broken swastika and holds a lowered sword in his hand (the author replaced the machine gun on the advice of Stalin). Inside the pedestal (architect Y. Belopolsky), there is a hall, the walls of which artist A. Gorpenko decorated with mosaics and inscriptions about the importance of the victory over fascism. A chandelier made of crystal and rubies reproduces the Order of Victory. At the beginning of the 21st century, Germany allocated 2.5 million euros for the restoration of the structures.