Berlin · Tiergarten · Germany

Soviet War Memorial Treptow

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9/10

best: morning, afternoon

historic, sobering, monumental

A local would say...

Two Russian tanks stand guard in the middle of Berlin — the victors' monument in the vanquished city, still perfectly preserved.

A bombastic Soviet war memorial flanked by two Russian tanks said to have been the first to enter Berlin in 1945, located along Strasse des 17 Juni in Tiergarten. The memorial's scale and its placement in the heart of the western city make it an arresting and thought-provoking stop. Part of the grand axis leading from the Brandenburger Tor to the Siegessäule.