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This monument is dedicated to fallen Russian
soldiers in Sopot during the final days of the Second World War. It
was built on old German monument from 1909, which was supposed to
mark the German East Border. It is made of large rock and cemented
to large granite rock base. On the top there was large eagle made of
bronze and weighting about 1.5 tons, which was taken to Soviet Union
probably as a war trophy or to be melted.
Instead of the eagle a star with five arms (The Arms
of Soviet union) was mounted on the rock with a commemorative
brass board containing names of 63 Russian soldiers. Nevertheless the
commentary is a place of 646 Russian soldiers who lost their life in
Sopot and surroundings in the last days of Hitler’s Germany. |