#Victory81

🗓 On June 20, 1945, the Red Banner No.5 — the legendary #VictoryBanner — was delivered from defeated Berlin to Moscow.

This was the very Banner that Red Army soldiers of the distinguished 150th Infantry Division — Mikhail Yegorov, Meliton Kantaria, and Alexey Berest — had raised over the Reichstag on the night of May 1, 1945.

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The Red Banner, riddled by Nazi bullets and stained with blood, became the main sacred relic of the Soviet people, the symbol of Victory in #WW2.

🎖 The great honour to deliver the legendary Banner to our Motherland was granted to the famous Red Army soldiers — the Heroes of the Battle of Berlin — Sergeants Yegorov, Kantaria, Syanov and Captain Neustroev, who, shoulder-to-shoulder, during the most fierce and bloody battles with the Nazis, raised the Victory Banner over the dome of the defeated Reichstag.

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On May 22, 1945, the Soviet 'Krasnaya Zvezda' (the Red Star) national newspaper reported the following:

It was decided to deliver the Banner to Moscow as the historical relic of our military glory. <...>

The Victory Banner is to be delivered, by the guard of honour, to the capital of our great Motherland, where it is to be kept for further generations in the memory of the Great Victory.

Upon being delivered to Moscow, the Victory Banner was initially placed at the headquarters of the battalion of the 1st Belarussian Front. Later, the legendary Banner was sent to the Central Museum of the Armed Forces, where it remains today.

🇷🇺 The legendary Red Banner is a symbol of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the key relic of honour for all the peoples of our country as well as the descendants of the Victorious generation in the former Soviet Union republics.