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Soviet War Memorial on Schönholzer Heide
by Felipe Tofani | Dec 6, 2021 | Berlin | 0
Soviet Memorial on Schönholzer Heide The hidden beauty of a Second World War Memorial ; While most...
Read MoreA Visit to the Maarjamäe Memorial Complex in Tallinn
by Felipe Tofani | Jun 24, 2021 | Tallinn | 0
Overlooking the bay in Tallinn, this is where you will find the Maarjamäe Memorial Complex. This ensemble of memorials dates from Soviet times, back in the 1970s, and it’s easy to spot from the city centre because of its sizeable concrete obelisk dedicated to the Defenders of the Soviet Union.
Read MoreVogelsang: Exploring an Abandoned Soviet Military Base
by Felipe Tofani | Nov 10, 2020 | Berlin, Urban Exploration | 0
Vogelsang used to be more than just a Soviet military base. This place used to be a city filled with secrets and soldiers, but today it lays empty in Brandenburg while it rots away in the middle of a forest.
Read MoreBerlin Soviet Memorial: Treptower Park
by Felipe Tofani | May 8, 2020 | Berlin | 0
The Berlin Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park is the biggest of the three war memorials the USSR left in Berlin after the end of the Second World War. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky as a memorial for 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who died in the Battle of Berlin between April and May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949, and it used to serve as the central war memorial in East Berlin.
Read MoreAll the locations that we found Lenin in Berlin
by Felipe Tofani | Apr 22, 2020 | Berlin | 0
Lenin At 150 All the locations that we found Lenin in Berlin ; It started a couple of years ago,...
Read MoreThis is Budapest: Everything you need to know about the capital of Hungary
by Fabiolla Loureiro | Mar 31, 2016 | Budapest, Hungary | 0
Budapest is a city that overcome all expectations that you might have. And I can say with no doubts, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
Read MoreA Quick Tour of what East Berlin used to look like
by Felipe Tofani | Aug 7, 2015 | Berlin | 0
A Quick Tour of what East Berlin used to look like Exploring the recent past of the German capital...
Read MoreWinter at the largest Soviet Memorial in Berlin
by Felipe Tofani | Feb 6, 2015 | Berlin, Germany | 0
When we moved to Berlin back in 2012, we didn’t know anything about soviet memorials. Nothing at...
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