68 years ago, on May 8, 1949, a monument to the warrior-liberator was solemnly opened in Berlin in the Treptov Park. The memorial was erected at the site of the burial of 5 thousand Soviet soldiers who died in the capture of the capital of fascist Germany. The decision was made at the Potsdam Conference, two months after the end of the war.
The idea for the composition of the monument served as a real plot: on April 26, 1945, Sergeant Nikolai Masalov during the assault on Berlin brought out a German girl.
   The soldier was wounded in the leg, but the girl was brought to his own.
     Vučetić prepared two projects of the monument. Initially in the Treptov Park was planned to put a Stalin statue with a globe in the hands as a symbol of the conquest of the world. As a spare option, Vucic offered a soldier’s sculpture with a girl in his arms. Stalin submitted both projects, but he approved the second.
   On the Potsdam Bridge in Berlin, a plaque was installed in memory of the feat of Nikolai Masalov in this place. When they tried to find the same girl, about a hundred German families responded. It was documented that about 45 German children were rescued by Soviet soldiers.