Soviet war memorials are memorials commemorating the activities of Soviet Armed Forces in any of the wars involving Soviet Union, but most notably World War II. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of the memorials, especially the ones dedicated to the activities of Soviet Armed Forces in former Soviet Bloc countries during World War II, have been removed, relocated, altered or have had their meaning reinterpreted (such as the Liberty Statue in Budapest).
Austria
Soviet War Memorial (Vienna)
Soviet War Graves at Zentralfriedhof (Vienna)
Belarus Minsk Hero City Obelisk Victory Square, Minsk Mound of Glory, Minsk Brest Hero Fortress Khatyn Memorial Victory Square (Vitebsk)
Bulgaria Alyosha Monument, Plovdiv Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia , Byala Slatina
China
Soviet Red Army Monument, Harbin , Shengyang Monument to the Soviet Army Martyrs in the
Czech Republic
Monument to Soviet Tank Crews (first painted, later removed) Statue of Ivan Konev (removed in 2020) (removed in 1991)
Germany Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park), a memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin , a memorial in Seelow Heights, Brandenburg Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten), a memorial in Tiergarten, Berlin Soviet War Memorial (Schönholzer Heide), a memorial in Schönholzer Heide, Berlin
Estonia Bronze Soldier of Tallinn (relocated to Tallinn Military Cemetery in 2007) (removed in 2022) (removed in 2022) (removed in 2022)
Hungary Liberty Statue (Budapest), the Soviet inscription has been replaced Liberty Square (Budapest) Hungarian-Soviet Friendship Memorial, now in Memento Park Soviet War Memorial (Debrecen)
Kyrgyzstan Victory Square, Bishkek
Lithuania Memorial of Red Army soldiers in Antakalnis Cemetery, Vilnius (removed in 2022)
Latvia
Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders (removed in 2022)
North Korea Liberation Monument, Pyongyang
Norway Monument to Red Army Liberators, Roald Amundsens gate, Kirkenes
Poland After 2017, Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) government destroyed most of the Soviet War Memorials in Poland.
Monument to Brotherhood in Arms, Warsaw (removed in 2011) (removed in 2018) (removed in 2018) (removed in 2022) (removed in 2019) (removed in 2022) (removed in 2014) (removed in 2018) (removed in 2017) Soviet Military Cemetery, Warsaw
Romania
Tajikistan Victory Park, Dushanbe
Ukraine Mother Ukraine, Kyiv (modified in 2023) Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Kyiv Hero City monument, Kyiv (modified in 2023) Afghanistan War Memorial, Kyiv Nikolai Vatutin monument, Kyiv (removed in 2023) Monument to the Liberator Soldier, Kharkiv (destroyed in 2022) Monument to the Unknown Sailor, Odesa Monument to Soldiers Liberators, Chernihiv To Donbas Liberators, Donetsk
Other Joseph Stalin is still quoted in stone in German and Russian at least in TreptowSoviet War Memorial – Treptower Park, Berlin and Vienna.Kriza, Elisa. (2018). The Stalin plaque in Vienna: hiding and showing history. European Review of History. 26. 1-19. 10.1080/13507486.2018.1505832. Such inscriptions have been generally removed in Soviet Union and Soviet bloc countries as part of de-Stalinization.
A Soviet war memorial was erected in Plummer Park, West Hollywood, California in 2005. The memorial depicts cranes in flight, a reference to a popular Russian-language song by Rasul Gamzatov. A refrain from the song is shown in both English and Russian. A granite slab bears the inscription "dedicated in honor of and in tribute to the World War II veterans from the former Soviet Union" in English. West Hollywood is the center of a large Russian-speaking community from the former Soviet Union.
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