Time stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1973 - 100 Pfennig

New Postage Stamp Series The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues four more values ​​of the new postage stamp series. No special first-day cover envelope Postwertzeichendauerserie 1, -Mark value: Berlin-Treptow - Soviet War Memorial In 1949, the Soviet sculptor JV Vutschetitsch created this monumental sculpture of a Soviet soldier who holds a sword in his right, with the left arm protects a child, as the culmination of a memorial to the fallen soldiers of his country, which expresses the meaning of the struggle of the Soviet army for the liberation of the peoples from the scourge of fascism in partly symbolic, partly directly read life expressive values ​​unusually memorable and convincing. The representation chosen on the stamp shows the picture in emphasized underside, as if the viewer had already passed through the elongated, artistically varied cemetery complex with the mass graves, now standing at its end point at the foot of the heaped hill and looking up at the monumental figure erected on it , To commemorate the fallen Soviet soldiers, wreaths are laid both in the statue's mausoleum and on the wide flight of steps leading up the hill.