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SOVIET WAR MONUMENTS OF THE GREAT
PATRIOTIC WAR
BY GREG KAMINSKI
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Heroes by giving their names to schools, streets, factories, ships,
military units,
Komsomol detachments, and even celestial bodies like planets and stars!
All over Moscow, one can see bronze plaques on buildings, both public
and private, honoring Heroes. It is now estimated that only 3% of
veterans from the Great Patriotic
War survive today.
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A
bust honoring Lt. Petr Nikolaenko, an Ukrainian tank driver
who was killed in action on 29 January 1943 and became a Hero
of the Soviet Union posthumously on 31 March 1943. The names
of his fallen comrades are inscribed on the walls below his
likeness.
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The
"Mother of All Statues" - Mother Russia Statue at Mameyev Kyrgan
(Burial Mound) at Stalingrad (now Volgograd).
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A
monument honoring Lt. Vasily Yezkov, who destroyed 12 German tanks
in the Donetsk Region of Ukraine on 19 August 1943 and was killed.
He became a Hero
of the Soviet Union posthumously on 19
March 1944.
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"Our
Countrymen: Heroes of the Soviet Union" St. Petersburg, Russia, 1998
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