Delegations from eight countries laid wreaths to the Victory Day at the memorial complex in Berlin’s Treptow Park.
The ceremony was attended by Russian Ambassador Sergei Nechaev, as well as ambassadors of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, governing mayor of Berlin Michael müller, state Minister in the German foreign office Niels Anen, and other officials.
Laying opened with the traditional minute of silence at the foot of the 12-meter monument to the Soviet soldier with the girl in his arms. Heads of delegations lined up opposite installed on special supports wreaths. In addition to the colors from the embassies there were wreaths from the German government, the Federal provinces and selected cities, public organizations.
Then diplomats and officials climbed the steps up to the pedestal of the monument, which is located inside a small room. The walls of the hall decorated with a mosaic panel, which depicts representatives of various Nations, to lay flowers on the grave of the Soviet soldiers. The delegation laid flowers in the memorial hall, and went downstairs.
Despite the fact that this year because of the pandemic coronavirus ceremony officially takes place behind closed doors, in Treptow Park to pay tribute to the fallen came the veterans of the great Patriotic war and members of the Resistance, the people of Berlin, activists of public organizations. Because of the pandemic, earlier in Berlin, was cancelled March "Immortal regiment", which was held for the sixth consecutive time from the Brandenburg gate to the memorial complex of the Tiergarten. However, in Treptow Park, some people came with posters made for the campaign.
Sculpture depicting Soviet soldier with a little girl in her arms, established in the territory of the memorial complex in Berlin’s Treptow Park in memory of the fallen in the great Patriotic war. It is believed that the prototype of the figure of the soldier with the child served as a Sergeant Nikolai Masalov, who, in April 1945 made German child from the zone of fire. In memory of Sergeant at the Potsdam bridge in Berlin there is a memorial plaque with the inscription: "during the battle for Berlin on 30 April 1945, near the bridge, risking his life, he saved from the fire caught between two fronts of the child".
Memorial in Treptow Park was inaugurated by the Soviet commandant of Berlin Alexander Kotikov may 8, 1949. This is one of the most famous monuments in memory of the fallen in the struggle against fascism the Soviet soldiers in the world. On site are buried in mass graves of 7.2 thousand people.
