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ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYSoviet war memorial, 1950
Stars and Stripes
August 22, 2018
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Henry Toluzzi ©Stars and StripesBerlin, May, 1950: Visitors crowd the steps of the Soviet war memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park. The statue of a soldier carrying a German girl while standing atop a crushed swastika was completed in the late 1940s as the centerpiece of a burial ground for 5,000 Soviet troops killed in the World War II battle for Berlin.