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The Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten) is one of several war memorials in Berlin, capital city of Germany, erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate its war dead, particularly the 80,000 soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces who died during the Battle of Berlin in April and May 1945.
The memorial is located in the Tiergarten, a large public park to the west of the city centre, on the north side of the east-west Strasse des 17 Juni (17 June Street).
Despite the efforts of de-Russianization and de-Sovietization, Soviet remnants like this are not uncommon
Soviet tank KV with early type of turret (huge - "bolszoj"), stuck in the river Ziedaplis (Zieduplis). Tank captured by German troops 06.24.1941 year. At the tower, and a large number of guns mask traces of heavy ammunition of small caliber. Tanks from the 2nd Armored Division of the 3rd Mechanized Corps of the 11th Army of the North-Western Front. Perhaps, this tank was lost in the vicinity of the town of Seth 17 km east of the city Kedainiai in Lithuania. Machine release July-August 1940.
The Parchim-class corvette (Soviet designation Project 1331M) was developed for the East German Navy in the late 1970s, and built by the Wolgast Peene-Werft. The ships were designed for coastal anti-submarine warfare. In case of an all-out NATO-Warsaw Pact war in Europe their prime targets would have been the small U-206 coastal submarines of the West German navy. The first ship, Wismar (now the Indonesian KRI Sutanto), was launched on 9 April 1981 in Rostock, and subsequently another 15 ships were built until 1986. To make production more economical, the Soviet Union agreed to purchase another 12 ships from Wolgaster Peenewerft built between 1986 and 1990, thereby effectively subsidising the East German shipbuilding industry.
The ships of the Soviet Navy were named Parchim II by NATO. Though useful as a coastal ASW platform, the Soviet production of the similar but far more powerful Grisha class made this purchase even more illogical for the Red Navy. After German re-unification the former East German ships were sold to the TNI-AL (Indonesian Navy) in 1993. The Indonesian Navy extensively refurbished their Parchims, to the point where the refurbishing exceeded the cost of purchase. They are still in service, both in the Indonesian Navy and in the Russian Baltic Fleet.
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The RUSAL ARMENAL aluminum foil mill (formerly the Kanaker aluminum smelter) in Yerevan's Arabkir district.
we rode these cool soviet era hydrafoils from downtown saigon out the saigon river to vung tau - we stayed bai truoc