It was not until 1955 that the Pantzerdenkmal found a new home in East Berlin, and fourteen years later, it moved again, namely to the new GDR border crossing, Drewitz. Whoever drove into East Berlin saw the tank looming, its barrel pointed jauntily to the West.
The collapse of communism also shook this Russian monument. At the end of 1990, the Russian army disassembled the armored vehicle, and artist Eckhardt Haisch replaced it with a snowblower painted pink, a reminder of the uprisings against communism in 1989.