The commemorations in Berlin started on 8 May, as Germany marked the 78th anniversary of its liberation from fascism, and groups of Russians visited the Soviet war memorial in Treptower Park.

IN ALMOST the very heart of the Soviet Sector ... The center of this park was taken over by the Soviets and transformed into its Red Army War Memorial — "The Garden of Remembrance." ...

TASS/. The Russian embassy in Berlin sent a note of protest to the German Federal Foreign Office after the Soviet War Memorial in the Treptower Park was vandalized, the embassy said in a statement.