Soviet War Memorials
Soviet War Memorials may refer to a number of different memorials in different countries honoring the Soviet Union's Red Army sacrifice in the Second World War, specifically in the specific regions that were liberated. Some of the memorials have been relocated (Bronze Soldier in Tallinn) or removed (Monument to Brotherhood in Arms, Warsaw), some changed their meaning (Liberty Statue in Budapest). Poland. After 2017, Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) government destroyed most of the Soviet War Memorials in Poland. One of the most iconic sights in Murska Sobota is the monument made from Carrara marble  – a landmark that was dedicated to Soviet soldiers and Yugoslav Partisans. Slovenia. The Monument to the Liberators in the very center of Murska Sobota dates to 1945. Its authors are the Soviet military engineer Yuri Aronchik and the brothers Boris and Zdenko Kalin, two Slovenian sculptors who created the statues of the Partisan and the Red Army Soldier. The monument was designed as a tomb that symbolizes the walls of the Kremlin, with an honor guard in front and an imposing obelisk above with a portrait of Lenin on a bronze medallion. The monument had initially been intended to hold  the remains of Soviet soldiers who were killed in the Pomurje region, but their remains were later taken to mass graves at the cemetery in Murska Sobota. Other. Joseph Stalin is still quoted in stone in German and Russian at least in Treptow and Vienna. Such inscriptions have been generally removed in Soviet Union and Soviet block countries.