Polar bears venturing far for their food

The Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Tiergarten commemorates Russian soldiers killed during the assault on the city in 1945. About 2,000 of the fallen are buried beneath it. Two tanks stand sentry on plinths in front of a columned walkway topped by a huge statue.

However, these are no ordinary tanks. They are T-34s, which German general, Paul von Kleist, considered “the finest tanks in the world”. Military historians agree. The 80,000 of them, turned out by soviet factories, helped shape the course of history.