The Soviet memorial near the Military History Museum in Dresden has been extensively renovated. At around 127,500 euros for the restoration of the sculpture, the plinth and the inscription plaques as well as the repair of the paving and lawn, the costs remained within budget according to the town hall.
The work, which was inaugurated in 1945, was the first memorial erected in Germany for fallen soldiers of the Red Army. By May 8, the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a text plaque in German, English, Russian and Ukrainian will provide information about the history of its creation at a cost of around 25,000 euros.
The memorial is dedicated to the fallen soldiers of the 5th Guards Army. It was formed as a merger of several smaller troop units after the Red Army's victory over the German Wehrmacht in Stalingrad in 1943 - and was deployed across the Eastern Front to Saxony and Dresden as liberators and occupiers.
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