The Soviet regime replaced the Nazi regime in Druskininkai with the capturing of the town by Red Army soldiers on July 14, 1944. As in many other Eastern European towns, the ‘liberation’ was commemorated with the opening of a cemetery to honour Stalin’s fallen troops. Druskininkai’s Soviet Cemetery moved twice before being finally settled in this lakeside spot southwest of the bus station in 1962, having previously been relocated from more sensitive parts of the town including near to the Catholic church. At the northern end of the cemetery is a typically bombastic work of Soviet art. More interesting are the individual graves, of which some are still well looked after.