Monument to the Soviet soldier-liberator in Treptower Park in Berlin. File photoBERLIN, Apr 18The Soviet war memorial in Treptow Park in Berlin was once again covered with inscriptions on Monday night, Tagesspiegel reported, citing a police representative. is investigating the case, the publication said. In Berlin, the public use of the Z symbol was previously banned in connection with the military operation that Russia is conducting in Ukraine. However, in connection with the inscriptions at the entrance to the war memorial in Treptow Park, the police proceed from the fact that they were applied «as a criticism of Russia,» the newspaper writes. In Russia, the letter Z has already become an unofficial symbol of support for the operation. Since the police began to patrol the area more actively after the previous vandal attack on the memorial, the investigation proceeds from the fact that the inscriptions were applied around 23.40 Berlin time (1.40 Moscow time).
Vandals damaged the monument to the Liberator Soldier in TallinnOn the night of April 7, unknown people desecrated the memorial to the Soviet liberator soldiers in Treptow Park, pouring red paint over it and writing anti-Russian slogans on it. The monument in Treptow Park was erected in honor of the fallen soldiers of the Soviet Union in the Battle of Berlin in 1945. The Russian Embassy in Berlin sent a note of protest to the German Foreign Ministry demanding to eliminate the consequences of the vandal attack, which was promptly done on April 8. The Russian Investigative Committee opened four criminal cases on desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Germany. According to the agency, from March 29 to April 7, 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. in Kharkov
