Berlin Senate holds on to the Soviet memorial in the Tiergarten

Berlin's environment senator Bettina Jarasch (Greens) has rejected a proposal by the CDU in the House of Representatives to redesign the Soviet memorial in the Tiergarten district. "This is about commemorating the dead of the Second World War, in which soldiers of many nationalities from the Soviet Union, including a number of Russian and Ukrainians, died on the part of the Red Army in the fight against the Nazi regime," she told the dpa news agency.

The capital has taken over the care of the Soviet memorials on behalf of the federal government according to the 2+4 agreements. Jarasch emphasized that she pleads for the monument to be preserved in its historical form.

Bung: Tanks are symbols of aggression
Previously, the deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives, Stefanie Bung, had called for the guns and the two T34 tanks flanking the monument to be removed. She cited the war between Russia and Ukraine as the reason for this. Although Germany has a responsibility to commemorate the dead of the world wars, the situation has changed.

"Today, the tank in Tiergarten no longer only stands for the liberation of Germany from Nazi fascism, but for the aggressive warfare of the Putin regime, which disregards territorial borders and human lives," explained the deputy CDU parliamentary group leader. Therefore, the tanks as "symbols of aggression and war crimes" had to be removed from the Berlin cityscape.

Left Party: CDU is taken in by Putin's propaganda
The state manager of the Left Party, Sebastian Koch, criticized the Christian Democrat's initiative as nonsense. Bung is completely taken in by the propaganda of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who would like to reinterpret the victory in World War II as a purely "Russian" success. Soldiers from Ukraine and Poland were also part of the Red Army.

At the end of March, unknown persons covered the monument on 17 June Street with two Ukrainian flags. At the time, the Russian embassy sharply criticized the action: "We regard this incident as a desecration of the monument to Soviet soldiers who fell in the fight to liberate Europe from National Socialism."

In the Brandenburg municipality of Letschin there is also a monument showing a Soviet tank. This should not be changed either. "We will not organize any monument storming here," Letschin's mayor Michael Böttcher (free voters) said on Wednesday to the dpa news agency. Every era has its history, which cannot be related to current events.

Source: Junge Freiheit