WWII memorial

Monday, May 5, 2008

This memorial features Soviet war hymns blaring majestically through speakers all around the grounds to remind visitors that this is not DC's National Mall or Normandy, this is the Eastern Front. And...the memorial also features the USSR's psychedelic tanks. Towering over the Dnepro, the large woman-with-the-sword statue still displays the hammer and sickle on her shield and is known among Ukrainians, with some contempt, as "Tin Tits."

Posted by milkwood at 1:33 AM

1 comments:

MackAck said...

Cool pictures! I like the tanks.

May 5, 2008 at 4:46 PM  

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