"Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)" - In A Berlin Minute (Week 47)
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The Soviet World War Two Memorial in Treptower Park in Berlin is quite monumental - large in scale and meaning. The "Sowjetisches Ehrenmal in Treptow " was conceived by a collective of Russian artists and commemorates the 80,000 Red Army soldiers that died during the "Battle of Berlin" in May 1945. But this is not only a memorial - it is also the cemetery of 5,000 of those soldiers. Several people had recommended this sight to me. And I had mixed feelings about it from the get-go. On a beautiful spring-like late afternoon this week I went for the first time with two friends. The entire memorial is vast and impressive and it caused me more mixed feelings then and now as I've put the video and sounds together. I'm definitely a pacifist. I don't (usually) believe in attacking other countries, I don't believe in war propaganda or glorifying the military or any kind of violence. It breaks my heart to think of all the lives lost, all the trauma experienced and the cities, countries, cultures destroyed in all the stupid wars. But as we see with Libya right now - there are times when it seems the other countries' duty to step in and stop a regime from hurting its own people or those in su
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