This winter, while in Berlin, I made a trek out to the city’s Treptower park, where I gazed up at a 39-foot soldier, holding a sword in one hand a child in the other. Beneath the warrior’s feet was a broken Swastika.
The gargantuan statue is the central attraction of the park’s Soviet War Memorial, a grand display of Soviet Realism, which honors those who died fighting for the former empire in World War II. The soldier overlooks a square lined by several sarcophagi, decorated by relief scenes of the war and nationalistic quotes from Josef Stalin.
Take a look at the moment.
All photos by Tim O’Donnell.
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