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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2526299, member: 39&quot;]The Stalingrad commem is a tricky one. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; That battle was in 1942/43 but this coin was issued in 1975 (the year is part of the edge inscription), and the lights designed as XXX suggest 30 years since the end of WW2 in 1945. While I am not fond of gigantomania, no matter where, and thus dislike the monument, the idea with those lights is a good one, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>The monument on the 1965 coin (date on the edge again) is also interesting from a German POV. It features a Red Army soldier carrying a German child - and that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_War_Memorial_(Treptower_Park)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_War_Memorial_(Treptower_Park)" rel="nofollow">memorial</a> is in Berlin (also see the images <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Vuchetich" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Vuchetich" rel="nofollow">here</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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