One of the striking highlights of Victory Park, this public-funded monument was inaugurated on 13th July 2013 (with KGB and Special Forces veterans in attendance) in commemoration of the 2500+ Soviet intelligence personnel who lost their lives in the 3-month East Prussian offensive of 1945. The nature of their work, scouting and sabotaging behind enemy lines, meant that survivors were very few and far between.
The central sculpture was designed by I.T. Linevich-Jaworski and specifically pays homage to the contribution made by both sexes, consisting of a cloaked male agent armed with easy-to-conceal PPSh-41 submachine gun and grenades, and a female agent operating a radio concealed in a bag.
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