Saturday, May 1, 2021

The Red flag flies high over Berlin on May Day 1945

On this day, May 1, 1945 a

German newsreader officially announced that Adolf Hitler had "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery  fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany”. 

That same day a soldier of the victorious Red Army raises the Soviet flag over that same Reich Chancellery.

The world could breathe again. The job was done. 

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