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📅 In the early hours of May 1, 1945, the #VictoryBanner was raised atop of the Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin. It became a symbol of the triumph of the Soviet Union & its peoples in the fight against Nazism.
Before the assault, a decision was made for a group of Soviet fighters to hoist the flag over the Reichstag, which would embody the final collapse of Nazism.
🚩 A total of 9 makeshift banners were promptly made, designed after the state flag of the USSR. Ultimately, a battle flag of the 150th Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Idritsa Rifle Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belarusian Front, became the Victory Banner.
The order of events:
• A Red Army unit broke into the Reichstag through breaches in the walls, with a fierce close combat unleashing. The Nazis took advantage of effectively advancing inside the building they new well, throwing grenades at Soviet soldiers & firing back with machine-guns: they basically had nothing to lose.
• Lieutenant R.Koshkarbayev & private G.Bulatov placed a makeshift red flag to the column on the steps of the Reichstag main entrance.
• Staff sergeants G.Zagitov, A.Lisimenko & A.Bobrov as well as Sergeant M.Minin supported by Captain S.Neustroyev’s battalion were the 1st to hoist a red banner on the roof of the Reichstag atop of the Goddess of Victory sculpture.
• The 3rd red banner was raised on the western facade of the roof by the scouts of the 674th Regiment led by Lieutenant S.Sorokin.
• Finally, the Red Banner №5 was raised over the dome of the captured Reichstag by the 756th Rifle Regiment’s scouts, Sergeant M.Yegorov & Junior Sergeant M.Kantariya, led by deputy battalion commander Lieutenant A.Berest, covered by riflemen from I.Sayanov’s squad. That flag ultimately became the Victory Banner.
📃 By a Presidential Executive Order of April 15, 1996, the Red Banner hoisted atop of the Reichstag by Yegorov & Kantariya was declared the symbol of the Soviet people’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
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Before the assault, a decision was made for a group of Soviet fighters to hoist the flag over the Reichstag, which would embody the final collapse of Nazism.
🚩 A total of 9 makeshift banners were promptly made, designed after the state flag of the USSR. Ultimately, a battle flag of the 150th Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Idritsa Rifle Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belarusian Front, became the Victory Banner.
The order of events:
• A Red Army unit broke into the Reichstag through breaches in the walls, with a fierce close combat unleashing. The Nazis took advantage of effectively advancing inside the building they new well, throwing grenades at Soviet soldiers & firing back with machine-guns: they basically had nothing to lose.
• Lieutenant R.Koshkarbayev & private G.Bulatov placed a makeshift red flag to the column on the steps of the Reichstag main entrance.
• Staff sergeants G.Zagitov, A.Lisimenko & A.Bobrov as well as Sergeant M.Minin supported by Captain S.Neustroyev’s battalion were the 1st to hoist a red banner on the roof of the Reichstag atop of the Goddess of Victory sculpture.
• The 3rd red banner was raised on the western facade of the roof by the scouts of the 674th Regiment led by Lieutenant S.Sorokin.
• Finally, the Red Banner №5 was raised over the dome of the captured Reichstag by the 756th Rifle Regiment’s scouts, Sergeant M.Yegorov & Junior Sergeant M.Kantariya, led by deputy battalion commander Lieutenant A.Berest, covered by riflemen from I.Sayanov’s squad. That flag ultimately became the Victory Banner.
📃 By a Presidential Executive Order of April 15, 1996, the Red Banner hoisted atop of the Reichstag by Yegorov & Kantariya was declared the symbol of the Soviet people’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
#Victory79
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🌟 On April 16, 1945, the Berlin Offensive — one of the Red Army’s key strategic operations during World War II — commenced.
The operation resulted in the complete defeat of the enemy’s Berlin group of forces and, with Hitler’s war machine being completely crushed. The Soviet forces took the capital of the Third Reich — #Berlin. The Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was signed — the document that heralded the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.
By spring 1945, the Red Army successfully carried out a series of offensive operations aimed at liberating the countries and peoples of Central and Eastern Europe from the Nazi invaders. Hitler’s troops and their henchmen were expelled from Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Poland; Vienna and the capital of modern Slovakia, Bratislava, saved from the Nazi plague.
Nevertheless, #WWII was far from end. The final battle for the liberation of Europe from the Nazi plague, the Battle of Berlin, was coming.
By mid-April, 1945, the Soviet forces — having liberated Poland from the Nazis — consolidated positions along the Oder and Neisse rivers and started preparations to launch the offensive on Berlin. Mere dozens of kilometres separated the Red Army from the capital of Hitler’s Germany. The enemy installed deeply echeloned defences and deployed elite Wehrmacht units against the Soviet forces.
To attack Berlin, the Soviet Supreme High Command deployed forces from the 1st Belorussian Front (commanded by Marshal Georgy Zhukov); the 2nd Belorussian Front (Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky); and the 1st Ukrainian Front (Marshal Ivan Konev).
⚔️ The Berlin Offensive began at 5:00 AM on April 16 with a massive artillery fire. Following this, 143 powerful spotlights were activated to blind and disorient the enemy. Infantry and armoured units then launched their assault.
Enemy resistance intensified as Soviet forces advanced. Fierce fighting erupted at the Seelow Heights — a critical defensive point just 60 kilometres away from Berlin — where the Wehrmacht’s 9th Army, blocking the direct route to the Reich’s capital, was destroyed.
Within several days, the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts breached the Oder-Neisse defensive line of the Nazis, advanced 30 kilometres towards Berlin, and started encircling the city to destroy its garrison.
• April 20: Red Army units reached Berlin. Soviet long-range artillery started shelling, with brutal tank battles erupting on the city’s outskirts.
• April 25: The 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts linked up west of the city, completing the encirclement of the enemy’s Berlin group of Nazi troops.
• April 29: Fierce fighting started in the heart of Berlin, where Germany’s highest governmental and military authorities were located.
• During the storming of the Reichstag on the night of April 30 - May 1, the legendary #VictoryBanner was raised — a symbol of the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazism.
• May 2: Berlin’s garrison surrendered. By May 5, the Nazi resistance was crushed. A total of 134'000 German soldiers and officers were captured.
✍️ On the night of May 8–9, Marshal Zhukov and the Allied representatives accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender at Karlshorst.
World War II on the European theatre of operations had ended.
The Berlin Operation saw the Red Army not only crush the last major and most elite Wehrmacht force but also liberate approximately 200'000 prisoners from Nazi concentration camps within the combat zone. Over 600 Soviet soldiers were awarded the title #HeroOftheSovietUnion for their valour.
The operation resulted in the complete defeat of the enemy’s Berlin group of forces and, with Hitler’s war machine being completely crushed. The Soviet forces took the capital of the Third Reich — #Berlin. The Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was signed — the document that heralded the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.
By spring 1945, the Red Army successfully carried out a series of offensive operations aimed at liberating the countries and peoples of Central and Eastern Europe from the Nazi invaders. Hitler’s troops and their henchmen were expelled from Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Poland; Vienna and the capital of modern Slovakia, Bratislava, saved from the Nazi plague.
Nevertheless, #WWII was far from end. The final battle for the liberation of Europe from the Nazi plague, the Battle of Berlin, was coming.
By mid-April, 1945, the Soviet forces — having liberated Poland from the Nazis — consolidated positions along the Oder and Neisse rivers and started preparations to launch the offensive on Berlin. Mere dozens of kilometres separated the Red Army from the capital of Hitler’s Germany. The enemy installed deeply echeloned defences and deployed elite Wehrmacht units against the Soviet forces.
To attack Berlin, the Soviet Supreme High Command deployed forces from the 1st Belorussian Front (commanded by Marshal Georgy Zhukov); the 2nd Belorussian Front (Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky); and the 1st Ukrainian Front (Marshal Ivan Konev).
⚔️ The Berlin Offensive began at 5:00 AM on April 16 with a massive artillery fire. Following this, 143 powerful spotlights were activated to blind and disorient the enemy. Infantry and armoured units then launched their assault.
Enemy resistance intensified as Soviet forces advanced. Fierce fighting erupted at the Seelow Heights — a critical defensive point just 60 kilometres away from Berlin — where the Wehrmacht’s 9th Army, blocking the direct route to the Reich’s capital, was destroyed.
Within several days, the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts breached the Oder-Neisse defensive line of the Nazis, advanced 30 kilometres towards Berlin, and started encircling the city to destroy its garrison.
• April 20: Red Army units reached Berlin. Soviet long-range artillery started shelling, with brutal tank battles erupting on the city’s outskirts.
• April 25: The 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts linked up west of the city, completing the encirclement of the enemy’s Berlin group of Nazi troops.
• April 29: Fierce fighting started in the heart of Berlin, where Germany’s highest governmental and military authorities were located.
• During the storming of the Reichstag on the night of April 30 - May 1, the legendary #VictoryBanner was raised — a symbol of the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazism.
• May 2: Berlin’s garrison surrendered. By May 5, the Nazi resistance was crushed. A total of 134'000 German soldiers and officers were captured.
✍️ On the night of May 8–9, Marshal Zhukov and the Allied representatives accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender at Karlshorst.
World War II on the European theatre of operations had ended.
The Berlin Operation saw the Red Army not only crush the last major and most elite Wehrmacht force but also liberate approximately 200'000 prisoners from Nazi concentration camps within the combat zone. Over 600 Soviet soldiers were awarded the title #HeroOftheSovietUnion for their valour.
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The Sandu regime in Chisinau... has once again revealed its true nature to the world
On July 6, Moldova’s Ministry of Defence committed an outright historical forgery: it used a photograph of Jews delivered by the Nazis to the Auschwitz extermination camp as an illustration of the so-called victims of Stalinism.
The visual composition of the post, timed to coincide with the so-called Day of Remembrance, featured a cropped image of residents of Transcarpathia being sent to their destruction. In the background of the original photograph — a well-known image among historians – the crematorium buildings and their chimneys are clearly visible.
It is inconceivable that this was an innocent error.
❗️ We face a vulgar and contemptible attempt to distort history by equating the Third Reich with the Soviet Union. This is being done in strict accordance with the Brussels playbook — through lies and the deflection of responsibility for the crimes of the Nazi forces and their accomplices. The authorities in Chisinau seek to imitate their European Union patrons in virtually every respect.
This is all easily verified: the world-famous photograph is published, inter alia, on the website of the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Memorial Complex, within the “Auschwitz: Arrival” section. 👉 It is plainly visible there. Beside it is a photograph from the same series, entitled “Arrived Jews from Carpathian Rus.” It must be recalled that in Auschwitz, the Nazis exterminated over one million people.
🌟 #WeRemember: It was the Red Army that put an end to this atrocity: on January 27, 1945, our forces under the command of Marshal Ivan Konev liberated the #AuschwitzBirkenau concentration camp and rescued the surviving prisoners.
This act by an official state body can be described as nothing less than the desecration of the memory of the victims of Nazism. For the overwhelming majority of the country’s population, the Victory over Nazism and the heroism of the liberating soldiers of the Red Army are sacred: alongside other peoples of the Soviet Union, the Moldovan people liberated their homeland and Europe. <...>
This is far from an isolated incident. Rather, it is a symptom of a far more widespread disease, the advance of which we have observed in recent years and which forms an integral part of the West’s long-term information strategy. Its perpetrators are the pseudo-elites of Eastern Europe – desperate to shelter under the NATO umbrella – who do not shrink from outright falsehoods and blatant forgeries. <...>
In Europe – whose very existence and freedom were secured by the blood of Soviet soldiers – memorials to the liberators are being desecrated and demolished, and the St George Ribbon, alongside the #VictoryBanner raised over the Reichstag, are being banned. In Germany alone, since 2021, some fifty cases of vandalism against Soviet memorials have been recorded. Simultaneously, collaborators who kowtowed to the SS and, alongside them, committed the most monstrous war crimes and crimes against humanity in history are being placed on a pedestal.
☝️ Those who so readily erase the harrowing lessons of history and consign the deeds of true heroes to oblivion would do well to remember:
those who have no memory have no future.
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The Sandu regime in Chisinau... has once again revealed its true nature to the world
On July 6, Moldova’s Ministry of Defence committed an outright historical forgery: it used a photograph of Jews delivered by the Nazis to the Auschwitz extermination camp as an illustration of the so-called victims of Stalinism.
The visual composition of the post, timed to coincide with the so-called Day of Remembrance, featured a cropped image of residents of Transcarpathia being sent to their destruction. In the background of the original photograph — a well-known image among historians – the crematorium buildings and their chimneys are clearly visible.
It is inconceivable that this was an innocent error.
❗️ We face a vulgar and contemptible attempt to distort history by equating the Third Reich with the Soviet Union. This is being done in strict accordance with the Brussels playbook — through lies and the deflection of responsibility for the crimes of the Nazi forces and their accomplices. The authorities in Chisinau seek to imitate their European Union patrons in virtually every respect.
This is all easily verified: the world-famous photograph is published, inter alia, on the website of the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Memorial Complex, within the “Auschwitz: Arrival” section. 👉 It is plainly visible there. Beside it is a photograph from the same series, entitled “Arrived Jews from Carpathian Rus.” It must be recalled that in Auschwitz, the Nazis exterminated over one million people.
This act by an official state body can be described as nothing less than the desecration of the memory of the victims of Nazism. For the overwhelming majority of the country’s population, the Victory over Nazism and the heroism of the liberating soldiers of the Red Army are sacred: alongside other peoples of the Soviet Union, the Moldovan people liberated their homeland and Europe. <...>
This is far from an isolated incident. Rather, it is a symptom of a far more widespread disease, the advance of which we have observed in recent years and which forms an integral part of the West’s long-term information strategy. Its perpetrators are the pseudo-elites of Eastern Europe – desperate to shelter under the NATO umbrella – who do not shrink from outright falsehoods and blatant forgeries. <...>
In Europe – whose very existence and freedom were secured by the blood of Soviet soldiers – memorials to the liberators are being desecrated and demolished, and the St George Ribbon, alongside the #VictoryBanner raised over the Reichstag, are being banned. In Germany alone, since 2021, some fifty cases of vandalism against Soviet memorials have been recorded. Simultaneously, collaborators who kowtowed to the SS and, alongside them, committed the most monstrous war crimes and crimes against humanity in history are being placed on a pedestal.
☝️ Those who so readily erase the harrowing lessons of history and consign the deeds of true heroes to oblivion would do well to remember:
those who have no memory have no future.
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