On the night of April 30 to May 1, 1945, the Victory Banner, a symbol of the Soviet Union’s triumph in the fight against Nazi Germany, was raised over a defeated Berlin.
Red Army soldiers Mikhail Yegorov, Meliton Kantaria, and Alexei Berest hoisted the scarlet flag – the assault flag of the 150th Infantry Division of the 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belarusian Front – on the Reichstag’s roof.
Today the Banner of Victory is kept at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The blood-red canvas remains the main symbol of the Great Patriotic War, and a source of pride for all those nations of the USSR that contributed to our common Victory.
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