The liberation day of Berlin and the Red Army

in May 1945 the Red Army has occupied Berlin,
has pinned the red flag on the Reichstag
Hitler has committed suicide in the chancellery
and
the monster of Nazism no longer exists
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now the really hard part begins
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who will prevail?;
the western capitalists (American-English-French)
or the eastern communists? (Soviet Union)
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a few days before Churchill has received a top secret report
from the staff of
who, in response to the question he had put to them:
IF THE RED ARMY WANTS TO CONTINUE THE MARCH
WHERE WILL IT STOP?;
the answer was:
IN PORTUGAL, WHEN THEY MEET THE ATLANTIC
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so that's where the westerners understood that it's not to play
and they used diplomacy to buy time until the atomic bomb was built
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Admiral Danich, whom Hitler had appointed as his successor,
instructs the German generals to sign a capitulation with the Westerners
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on May 7, German General Alfred Jodl signs in Rheims, France, a capitulation of Germany to the Western powers...
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Immediately after the signing General Yodle addressed the Allied delegation with the following words:
«The German people rely on the generosity of the victors».
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Stalin finds out and gets furious.
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the westerners to appease them promise to make a proper surrender to Berlin held by the red army
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the next, on Tuesday evening, May 8, 1945
The Soviets, British, Americans and French appoint Russian General Georgi Zhukov to lead the operation.
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a quarter to midnight, Zhukov,
at the engineering school in the suburb of Karlshorst,
in Berlin,
gives ready the surrender document to German Field Marshal Keitel.
even read it out loud to be heard by the entire German delegation
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the document begins:
“On behalf of the German Command, we agree to the surrender of our armed forces to the Command of the Red Army and the Allied Forces.”
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according to the testimony of a French officer, the Germans in the delegation
«biting their lips to keep from crying.».
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shortly after midnight Wednesday, May 9, 1945, the representatives sign the document.
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World War II is officially over...
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cost humanity 80 million people...
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the lion's share was held by the Russians with 20 million dead...
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and as the great American Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway has said:
“Every man who loves freedom owes the Red Army more than he can ever pay.”.
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P.S. If we were to observe a minute's silence for every Soviet dead, humanity would have to be silent for 38 long years....
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PS2. the picture from the page Past in Color Color in the Past

Author of the article:

Yannis Golias