Marzipan6, your words have nothing to do with what had happened. this memorial was not to purpose the greatness of a country for its deeds, but to memorise the soldiers who fell to keep your sorry existence with freedom. who knows what would have happened if the nazis would have won? youd probably be born in a gas chamber and be the second after. so stop pretending like the soviet union was all horrible, but try to think who would be there if the soviet union wasnt there. good old fritz with his mp40 up urs.

The monument, which indulges Russians’ typical love of heroics and sentimentality, is reportedly to be called, “We Fought the Nazis Together.” But when will Russian public opinion mature to where Russia will also erect a monument to the tens of thousands of innocent civilians from neighbouring countries that Russians in the service of the Soviet State killed, and to the hundreds of thousands they enslaved in Siberia? Perhaps that monument can be called, “We Committed Crimes Against Humanity Together”. Until Russia shows some balance and some reality in the monuments it erects, the ones it does set up inspire little credibility amongst its neighbours, and are seen just as a self-serving expression of propaganda in stone and brass.