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Soviet military cemetery in Warsaw

The Soviet Military Cemetery in Warsaw is the burial place of over 20,000 Soviet soldiers who died in the fight against Nazi Germany. It contains one of the first major monuments to be built in Warsaw to those who fought in the Second World War. It includes examples of Socialist Realist art showing workers (with tools) and other civilians greeting the victorious soldiers.

The monument is located in Mokotow, Warsaw, Poland, near to the middle of the area where the Warsaw Uprising took place. An anonymous person in yellow standing in the middle of the photo gives a sense of the (large) scale of the monument. The dedication on the monument (in the Centre of the photograph) is


Pamięci żołnierzy Armii Radzieckiej poległych o Wyzwolenie Polski spod Okupacji Niemieckiej w Latach 1944-1945. (Polish)
To the memory of the soldiers lost in freeing Poland from German occupation in the years 1944-1945. (My translation).

More than 20,000 Soviet soldiers lie in this Cemetery, mostly in mass graves to the left and right of the main monument. The cemetery was built soon after the war (exact date needs confirmaton).

The cemetery dedication on the right side lists (in Polish) units to which the dead belonged.

On the left is are the same dedications in Russian along with another relief.

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