Reichstag building in Berlin. File photoBERLIN, April 20 Since February 24, 16 vandal actions have been recorded on the territory of Soviet war memorials in Berlin, Tagesspiegel reported, citing a police representative. after vandalism in Treptower Park, home to one of the most famous Soviet war memorials in the world and home to the famous statue of the Liberator Warrior with a girl in his arms. jpg» />The authorities of Berlin have eliminated the consequences of vandalism in Treptow ParkThe Investigative Committee of Russia opened four criminal cases earlier on the facts of desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Germany. According to the agency, from March 29 to April 7, 2022, several memorial objects perpetuating the memory of Soviet soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War and participated in the liberation of Europe from Nazism were desecrated in Germany. Among them are objects located in Treptow Park and on Theodor-Heuss-Platz in Berlin. The attackers painted offensive inscriptions on the objects with paint. The Russian Embassy in Germany has already sent a number of protest notes to the German Foreign Ministry in connection with the attacks of vandals. So, on April 18, the diplomatic mission announced another appeal to the German Foreign Ministry in connection with the desecration of the Soviet war memorial in Treptow Park in Berlin. The diplomatic mission stressed that they «urged the German authorities to take comprehensive measures to prevent the recurrence of such excesses in the future» in accordance with the provisions of the agreement between the governments of the two countries on the care of war graves of December 16, 1992. On the night of April 7, unknown persons desecrated the memorial to Soviet soldiers -liberators in Treptow Park, dousing it with red paint and scribbling anti-Russian slogans. The monument in Treptow Park was erected in honor of the fallen soldiers of the Soviet Union in the Battle of Berlin in 1945. At the end of March, a number of Soviet war memorials in Berlin had already been attacked by unknown vandals, including in Treptow Park and Tiergarten, RIA Novosti was told earlier in the press service of the Metropolitan Police. from under the fire of a German child, formed the basis of the plot of the monument to the Liberator Warrior in Treptow Park. The central sculpture by Yevgeny Vuchetich is the figure of a Soviet soldier: with his left hand, a soldier holds a German girl he saved, pressing her to his chest, and with his right hand he holds a sword. He has a broken German swastika under his foot. This soldier has become a symbol of the liberation mission of the Soviet Union and victory over the enemy.
