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The final bridge to Berlin

This is a Historical Museum artwork It depicts the final bridge to cross to win the battle of Berlin and crush the Nazis in WW2 by the Russian Red Army. It contains of original magazine and newspaper clippings from Life and Signal magazine from 1945 and also a miniature version of the famous Ludendorff bridge, a line of machine gun bullets and a rusty Russian PPD-40. Common nickname is "papasha " machine gun ( not working any longer naturally ) a Russian money bill with Lenin's face , a 1940s pre plastic doll,a Red Army water bottle , framed photograph of Russian and American soldiers united in their affords to beat the Germans.

From Thomas Dellert , Italy

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