Figure 1.--Here we see Russian children at an unidentified city park, we think in the 1950s. Notice the T-34 tank proudly pearhed on a poedestal in the background. The T-34 was ashock to the Germans whomprided themselves on their supoeriority. |
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Monuments are most common in Russia. Thereare few in the ither former Soiviet republics. all of which cjose to separate from Russia, althiugh Belaeus has maintaind close relations. There are major monuments in Lenninngrad and Volgagrad (Stalingrad). The most striking is 'The Motherland Calls', Europe's tallest statue, an 85-meter (278-foot) figure of a sword-wielding Mother Russia soaring from a rise above the city of Volgograd - formerly named Stalingrad. It is the centerpiece of a memorial complex for the Battle of Stalingrad in which some 2 million people died before Soviet forces repulsed the Nazis. We are kss sure sure about Moscow. Red Square may serve as the monument. There are some modest monuments. The Tomb of yhe Unknown Soldier is located at the Kremlin Wall in the Alexander Garden in Moscow. A World War II monument featuring giant anti-tank traps is located on the outskirts of Moscow. There is a huge Monument to Defenders of the Soviet Arctic commonly called Alyosha, in Murmansk. A complex called Line of Defense in Russia's Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar region seems to us a brutal totalitarian statement. The monument consists of four strong arms, tightly clutching machine guns dedicated to the soldiers who defended Novorossiysk. There are many smaller momuments. To some extent T-34 tanks serve as Civil War cannons did in American parks and town squares. A sculptured monument was beyond the resources of small towns. But the T-34 was a icinic symbol of the the Red Arny's fight with the invading NAZis. We do not, however, know just how common this is. A 2019 pres report indicates that in a three-way deal also involving Vietnam, Russia has taken delivery of around 30 World War II-era T-34/85 tanks from Laos. These tanks will take part in public parades, be installed as museum pieces, and maybe even end up in state-sponsored movies and other media.
Trevithick, Joseph. "Russia just imported more World War II era T-34 tanks than they will buy new T-14s this year," The War Zone (January 9, 2019).
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