The medal is a commemorative tabletop MONUMENT IN BERLIN'S TREPTOW PARK WARRIOR LIBERATOR. 

GDR, THE 1960S. 

The metal is NICKEL SILVER. 

THE SIZE IS 95X41 Millimeters. The weight is 105 grams. 

The "Warrior Liberator" is a monument to Soviet soldiers who fell in the battles for Berlin at the war memorial in Treptow Park in Berlin. One of the three main Soviet war memorials in Berlin. Sculptor E. V. Vuchetich, architect J. B. Belopolsky, artist A. A. Gorpenko, engineer S. S. Valerius. It was opened on May 8, 1949.

70 years ago, on May 8, 1949, in Berlin's Treptow Park, the grand opening of the monument to the soldiers of the Soviet Army who died a brave death during the storming of the capital of the Third Reich took place. Izvestia remembers how it was.

There are hundreds of monuments to Russian soldiers-liberators in Europe — both from the Napoleonic era and the World Wars. The most famous and, perhaps, the most expressive of them stands in Berlin, in Treptow Park. He is recognizable at first glance — a Red Army soldier with a girl in his arms, trampling on a broken swastika — a symbol of defeated fascism. A soldier who endured the main hardships of World War II and conquered the world for Europe. One can speak grandiloquently about his feat, but the sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich, who saw the war through the eyes of a soldier and an officer, created an unflattering, humane image of a fighter.

During the Great Patriotic War, monumental art was treated with special attention. After the liberation of Novgorod in January 1944, our soldiers saw fragments of the monument "Millennium of Russia" in the ancient detinets. Retreating, the Nazis blew it up. Restoration work began without delay — and the multi-figure composition was restored long before the Victory, by November 1944. Because symbols are as important during the war as guns.

The Military Memorial in Treptov Park is the largest of such monuments outside the former Soviet Union and the most famous in the world along with Mamayev Kurgan. A young soldier with a rescued German girl in his arms and a sword cutting through a fallen swastika stands above the crowns of old trees on a burial mound.

In front of the bronze soldier is a memorial field with other mass graves, sarcophagi, bowls for eternal flame, two red granite banners, sculptures of kneeling soldiers - very young and older. The granite banners have inscriptions in two languages: "Eternal glory to the soldiers of the Soviet Army who gave their lives in the struggle for the liberation of mankind." The sarcophagi themselves are empty, the soldiers are buried in the ground along the edges of the alley of honor.

At the entrance, decorated with granite portals, visitors are greeted by the Motherland, grieving for her sons. She and the soldier-liberator are two symbolic poles defining the drama of the entire memorial, which is framed by weeping birches specially planted here as a reminder of Russian nature.