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The Netherlands, explained

Sovjet Ereveld

A Soviet war cemetery in Leusden, in the Dutch province of Utrecht, where Soviet soldiers who died in the Netherlands during the Second World War are buried. The site has a memorial with an obelisk and a memorial wall. An ereveld is a Dutch term for a war cemetery that is kept as a protected memorial place, and the Sovjet Ereveld is one of several such sites in the Netherlands that commemorate the dead of the war.

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