History 04/03/20 What did the red army in Berlin after the storming of the Reichstag
the capture of the Reichstag by the red army and hoisting the flag is a symbol of Victory. The famous photograph was captured of this process spread around the world and still makes an impression, reminding us of the heroism of our ancestors.
the Building received its name from the title of sitting there on power – German Parliament, even before Hitler came to power. Later, it housed the administration of the Parliament and its library, archives, exhibition halls and all sorts of little importance from the public point of view of the organization type of the production plant radios, military hospital, kindergarten, and the obstetrical Department of the clinic “charité”. It is therefore surprising that this beautiful building in the heart of Berlin somehow was considered “the enemy”, the symbol of Nazi Germany and most defensible building in town. Apparently, this happened due to the fact that the symbol of the German state in General, the Reichstag was still before Hitler, in which the Parliament had just lost its value.
the Nazis this building any difference is actually not attached. Would have been more logical if the Nazi symbol was the Reich Chancellery of the führer Adolf Hitler, and most persistent battle would go for it. And it so happened that aiming at the Reichstag, Soviet soldiers and officers fought their way to him through the streets past the Reich Chancellery, under which the bunker lived the last two days of his life the Fuhrer.
anyway, the most fierce fighting in the last days of the Berlin operation the red army turned it over to the Reichstag. After a brutal and bloody melee fights on the square in front of him and inside the building, Soviet soldiers knocked him from the Germans. And taking the Reichstag on April 30, and setting on his dome and in other places red flags began to celebrate.
the Soldier Niklas Burlak (by the way, ameriKan volunteer in the red army) was a tanker and reached Berlin. In his memoirs, “the American volunteer in the red army. The T-34 from Kursk bulge to the Reichstag,” he wrote, looked like the Reichstag in the first days after Berlini surgery and all of the great Patriotic war: “In front of the Reichstag the thousands of soldiers and officers, the vodka flowed like a river for the capture of the capital of Nazi Germany”.
And on the walls of the Reichstag adorned with ”autographs” soldiers and officers of the red army stormed Berlin. There were many thousands outside the building and inside from floor to ceiling. Soldiers wrote and carved their names than was possible in the course were knives, bayonets, shell fragments, shell casings, paint, ink, tar… All of them wanted to leave a mark, to engrave the names of the winners of the German-fascist aggressors”. By the way, some of the inscriptions left on one of the walls of the Reichstag (now the “Bundestag”) in the restoration of the building as a reminder of the historical lesson of 1945, They still can be seen on one of the walls of the building, if you visit it with a guided tour.
in addition to razrisovany the walls of the Reichstag, Soviet soldiers, of course, carried out of the ruined building, trophies, drank and sang there and in front of it (it’s called Konigsplatz), and of course, taking photos. Some even played in the wedding. So, the mortar platoon commander, senior Lieutenant Leonid Smirnov, and the nurse, Anastasia Rolled, came to the walls of the Reichstag in may 1945 captured the motorcycle to get married right there. Painted not in the registry office, as is usually done, and the paint on the walls of the Reichstag. Leonid wrote: “Today is my wedding”.
the Commander of the 150th infantry division and hero of the Soviet Union, V. M. Shatilov, also wrote in his memoirs what happened at the Reichstag in the first weeks after the victory. Approaching the building, he saw the Soviet field kitchen that fed the hungry German women. It was early in the morning. On the steps of the Reichstag and the square hundreds of soldiers were sleeping, mouthAVSI in the last battles of the war. Soldier it is always this lacking in the war – the possibility of a good night’s sleep. And the day continued that day which lasted a pilgrimage to the Reichstag – all came here for the same – write on walls.
Gradually it all stopped. In Berlin began to build a peaceful life and restoration work began. The soldiers of the red army slowly retreated from the center of the city and was used to a more measured routine. The Reichstag was for a long time neglected. It was destroyed now from the time of your stay in broken form under the snow, under the rain and winds. In 1954 he had even deliberately blow up the dome because of fears that otherwise he will break down completely and fall with great damage to other parts of the buildings. The building was repaired only in 1973, but almost never used. Only in 1990 in the Reichstag building again became to meet the deputies of the United Germany.
Konstantin Dmitriev
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