War and Art at the Soviet Memorial in Treptow

Do you want to know what nobody has told us? Do you want to discover history and art from a Soviet perspective and understand the origins of the division of Berlin, Germany and the world for half a century? This is the tour for you.

The Soviet memorial in Treptower Park is the most impressive example of the Soviet footprint in Berlin. Germany’s largest military cemetery and Western Europe’s largest anti-fascist memorial. The resting place of 8000 Soviet soldiers who died in Berlin will allow us to discover the history that has been hidden from us from the West. An essential and revealing tour to understand German history.

Contents of the tour:

• The Battle of Berlin and the end of the war.


• The Great Patriotic War, or the Soviet account of history.


• Stalinism and art.


• Nazis vs. Reds: the ideological war.


• Communism: the new Religion.


• Hitler’s plans in Eastern Europe.


• Forgotten victims: women, prisoners and Slavs.


• Military cemeteries and the political use of grief.


• The Soviet army in the GDR.


• Berlin in the 21st century. Neither poor nor sexy. The Defeat of Socialism.


• Bibliography, filmography and museum guide related to the tour.