Liberation Tower

Pyongyang


This stone column topped with a red star commemorates the Soviet liberation of Pyongyang from Japanese rule in 1945. Built in 1947, it is thoroughly Soviet in style, contrasting sharply with the very idiosyncratic later North Korean style of monument you'll see elsewhere in Pyongyang.


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