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The burial ceremony of the remains of more than 60 Red Army soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War was held at the Soviet military cemetery in Lebus with the participation of employees of the Russian embassy in Germany, the telegram channel of the Russian diplomatic mission reports.
As part of the ceremony, the remains of 61 Soviet soldiers who died in the last months of the war were buried. The ceremony was attended by Russian diplomats, employees of the Department for Perpetuating the Memory of Those Who Died in Defense of the Fatherland, clergymen of the Berlin-German Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, representatives of the German People's Union for the Care of War Graves, social activists, journalists and local residents.
The ceremony participants laid wreaths and honored the memory of the Red Army soldiers. At the Soviet military cemetery in Lebus, which arose two years after the end of the war, about 5,000 Soviet soldiers were buried. For almost 30 years, the remains of all the Red Army soldiers found in the land of Brandenburg have been buried in the cemetery.
Russkiy Mir
