The operation to liberate Vienna from the Nazis was completed in April 1945. By this time, the Soviet army already had extensive experience in offensive operations, but the situation was complicated by the task of preserving the capital of Austria from destruction as much as possible, despite the fact that the Nazis thoroughly used city buildings as defensive structures and mined bridges. A monument to 17 thousand soldiers and officers who gave their lives for the liberation of Vienna from the Nazis was erected on Schwarzenbergplatz immediately in the year of the Victory and opened in August forty-fifth! The architectural project with the colonnade was created by S. G. Yakovlev, the 12-meter sculpture of the Soldier-Liberator was sculpted by the sculptor M. A. Intezaryan. Austria cherishes the memory of the events of the Second World War, the liberation of their country from fascism.
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