The commemorations in Berlin started on 8 May, as Germany marked the 78th anniversary of its liberation from fascism, and groups of Russians visited the Soviet war memorial in Treptower Park.

BERLIN, August 9. /TASS/. The Russian embassy in Berlin sent a note of protest to the German Foreign Ministry over the desecration of the Soviet war memorial in the eastern city of Werneuchen ...

The Soviet War Memorial at Vienna's Schwarzenbergplatz ... and war prisoners from the states that were fighting Nazi Germany. The Russian diplomat stressed that the committee’s work should ...

Those on the left wanted the memorial to express pacifist sympathy for the victims of war. Others - including ... the Neue Wache now located in Soviet-occupied Germany, what became the communist ...

and eventually the Soviet Union, that would lead to German reunification. Many placed flowers in a rare remaining chunk of ...

The dedication today of the national Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa is long overdue. It is a tangible ...

The photograph, symbolising victory over Germany, was taken with a Leica ... one of almost 800,000 women serving in the Soviet military during the war. Little is known about her military career ...