Photos, videos and docs of Don Barrett (aka DBs travels), with the keywords: "Soviet"

Berlin wall guardhouse (#0018)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 06:33:48 +0000

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A former East German Berlin Wall guardhouse, near the Topography of Terror

Berlin Topography of Terror (#0002)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 06:33:17 +0000

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Berlin Wall exhibit at the Topography of Terror.

Berlin Topography of Terror (#0001)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 06:33:09 +0000

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American flag graffiti on the portion of the Berlin Wall at the Topography of Terror. This would have been the West Berlin side of the wall.

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0424)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:27:36 +0000

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A sign outside the memorial with photos of the construction of the cemetery -- and a very American sticker.

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0420)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:27:28 +0000

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Surrounding the base of the obelisk, the graves of officers, here a lieutenant.

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0416)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:27:22 +0000

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The obelisk, with the 'hall of honor' at the base. Buried beneath the 'hall of honor' are two Soviet colonels.

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0415)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:27:16 +0000

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Mother Russia, mourning her lost son. I didn't find a translation of the inscription and some of the letters are not visible, though roughly combining translations of the Russian and German results in something like this: The blood and death of Soviet heroes; the sorrows of mothers, widows, and orphans; for lasting peace between peoples.

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0413)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:27:08 +0000

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a single rose..

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0411)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:26:59 +0000

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Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0407)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:26:52 +0000

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Along the outside perimeter are these markers, each inscribed the names, rank, and birth dates of soldiers that could be identified.

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0404)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:26:47 +0000

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The main grounds. Of the roughly 13,200 soldiers (including 120 women) buried here, less than a quarter of those were identifiable.

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0403)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:17:47 +0000

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ENTBLÖSST DAS HAUPT
HIER SIND SOWJETISCHE SOLDATEN
HELDEN
DES GROSSEN VATERLANDISCHEN KRIEGES
1941-1945
ZUE EWIGEN RUHE GEBETTTET
SIE GABEN IHR LEBEN FUR EURE ZUKUNFT

Per the Wikipedia page, this translates to: "Uncover your head! Here are Soviet soldiers, heroes from the great war 1941-1945, laid to eternal rest." This translation drops out the ‘fatherland’ (VATERLANDISCHEN). Also in the Wikipedia page, the last line is missing which translates to: "They gave their lives for your future"

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0402)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:17:41 +0000

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обнажите головы!
здесь покоятся вечным сном
советские воины
герои великой отечественной воины
1941-1945
они отдали свои жизни за ваше счастье

This is closer to the translation on the Wikipedia page of: "Uncover your head! Here are Soviet soldiers, heroes from the great war 1941-1945, laid to eternal rest." Here the last line translates to: "They gave their lives for your happiness (or fortune)"

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0401)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:17:35 +0000

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I'm assuming this is depicting the working family at home mourning what looks to be news of a death delivered by another soldier. If you look to the upper left, you'll see a hammer and sickle on the flag.

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0400)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:17:28 +0000

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The detailed sculptures on the left side of the portal, depicting a male and a female soldier appearing to enter combat, with a fallen soldier between them. If you look close, you'll see that there is an anatomical impossibility in the sculptures.

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0399)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:17:24 +0000

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The main portal to the cemetery, with the obelisk in the distance. Details of the portal are in nearby photos.

Somehow this cemetery, more than other formerly Soviet sites that I have visited, felt very much like a reminder of what life must have been like during the Soviet era. It may have been just the grayness and dampness of the day, but contributing to that feeling was the semi-hidden nature of the entrance to the cemetery and the fact that I saw only two other people on the grounds. One person was the man in this picture who did not acknowledge my presence and walked in a way that suggested he was not a tourist, the other person was an older woman who was some sort of maintenance person and acknowledged me with only the briefest of nods. I felt as though I was in the middle of an old movie about undercover operatives meeting (and like I was being watched by surveillance cameras).

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0398)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:17:17 +0000

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The Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer Heide is in the Pankow borough of Berlin (formerly East Berlin) and is the largest Russian cemetery in Europe outside of Russia. It was built between 1947 and 1949 as the burial ground for 13,200 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who died in the battle of Berlin.

Sources for this and subsequent pictures are:
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_War_Memorial_(Sch%C3%B6nholzer_Heide)
Berlin.de: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/umwelt/stadtgruen/friedhoefe_begraebnisstaetten/en/sowjet_ehrenmale/schoenholzerheide/index.shtml

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0397)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:17:07 +0000

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вечная память героям (Eternal memory to the heroes)

Entrance gate to the Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer Heide

Berlin Schönholzer Soviet memorial (#0396)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:16:59 +0000

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Entrance fo the Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer Heide (heath). For some reason I could not find a good map with its location when I started looking for it, but now that I know where it is, I can find it on maps easily! Unfortunately it took a lot of wandering through a large (and pleasant) park before determining that I had started out in the wrong direction. As you can see from this shot, it was very well marked...(I'm being sarcastic).

Berlin Mem to Polish/Anti-Fascists (#0179)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 10:26:30 +0000

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A relief of a Polish and Red Army soldier,and of a German resistance fighter.