Mikhail Alexeyevich Yegorov (RSFSR, 5/05/1923 - 20/06/1975)

Mikhail Yegorov originally joined the Red Army as a partisan irregular, but was integrated into the Red Army proper after Operation Bagration.

Alongside Meliton Kantaria and Alexei Berest, he is credited as being one of the three soldiers who raised the Victory Banner over the Reichstag in the worldwide-famous photograph "Raising a Flag over the Reichstag".

A very humble and quiet man, he retired from the Red Army when the war was over and spent the rest of his life working in a dairy factory, never mentioning his status as a Hero of the Soviet Union to his colleagues, who were quite surprised when several Red Army personnel showed up to pay their respects to their late comrade who had died in an unfortunate accident.

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Alexei Prokopievich Berest (Ukraine, 09/04/1921 - 04/11/1970)

Born to a poor family from Sumy Oblast, Berest was allegedly part of the trio of soldiers who raised the Victory Banner over the Reichstag alongside Meliton Kantaria and Mikhail Yegorov.

Oddly not being awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for undisclosed reasons, Beresti was discharged three years after the war and worked at a cinema before being convicted for corruption. Five years after serving his sentence, he returned to work as a labourer in a factory before dying heroically sacrificing himself to save a child who strayed on a railway while a train was approaching.

He was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine in 2005, even if the Narcofuehrer and his Azovite friends are trying to forget such a "dishonorable" incident.

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Meliton Varlamis dze Kantaria (Georgia, 5/10/1920 – 27/12/1993)

A native from Abkhazia, Sergeant Meliton Kantaria is credited for having mounted the Banner of Victory on the Reichstag alongside Mikhail Yegorov.

He was demobilized one year after the end of the war and returned to Georgia, where he joined the Communist Party and became deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR.

Forced to flee from Abkhazia because of the war in 1993 after shelling destroyed his house, he died in a hospital in Moscow, but was reburied in his hometown one year later.

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Abdulkhakim Isakovich Ismailov (Dagestan, 01/07/1916 – 17/02/2010)

A Kumyk native from Dagestan, Ismailov was wounded five times throughout the war, but the proverbial Caucasian constitution allowed him to return to full health and continue fighting.

His role in raising the flag over the Reichstag went uncredited until Aleksey Kovalyev, a soldier who assisted with staging the picture "Raising a Flag over the Reichstag", recognized him as one of the original soldiers in 1995. For this, he was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation by Yeltsin.

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Honorable mention: Yevgeny Ananyevich Khaldei (Donetsk, 10/03/1917 - 06/10/1997) a Russian Jew from Donetsk, he was the photographer who took the now legendary "Raising a Flag over the Reichstag" picture.

He would gather many of the pictures he took throughout the Great Patriotic War in a collection of prints titled "Ot Murmanska do Berlina" ("From Murmansk to Berlin"), which would become available to the West only in the '90s, when his collection started to circulate beyond the Iron Curtain.

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▶ TASS will broadcast live the Victory Parade and fireworks in Moscow.

The parade will begin at 10:00 Moscow time on Red Square. Its broadcast will be available

▪ in the TASS Telegram channel ,
▪ on the agency's pages on VKontakte and Odnoklassniki ,
▪ on Rutube .

The festive fireworks display in the capital is scheduled to begin at 22:00.

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Berlin police have banned the distribution of the Marxist newspaper junge Welt on May 8—Victory Day—at the Soviet War Memorial and Red Army cemetery in Treptow

The trigger is a front page headlined “Hitler broken,” showing a red flag with a hammer and sickle, says junge Welt.

Nick Brauns, editor-in-chief of junge Welt, called it a clear case of censorship:

“It’s an attack on press freedom. A police decree banning Soviet symbols is now being used to keep junge Welt away from the memorial honoring the Red Army’s victory over Nazi fascism.”

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💥 Fighting in the Liptsy direction: FPV operators burn an enemy IFV

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The day before, on the outskirts of the settlement of Liptsy, our reconnaissance discovered a camouflaged enemy infantry fighting vehicle.

FPV operators of the 11th AK GV "Sever" carried out a series of targeted strikes, destroying an armored vehicle of the AFU.

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Watch the Victory Day Parade on Russian Perviy Kanal, Telegram livestream link: https://t.me/ChannelOne_official?livestream