near the flotwildstrasse, the complex of government buildings is within easy reach, however, the tanks run into a powerful barricade. you do n’t know about the revolution, but the germans barricades were mass-produced from concrete. so they built their special projects were the central part of the barricade could move through, and then, and again closed. that is, it was all serious, meanwhile, in the north of berlin, one of the main events of this day, the offensive of the third shock army, is unfolding. kuznetsova 16:00 major zharkov's 88th tank regiment is conducting a heavy battle in the area of ​​the railway stations weding and müllerstrasse is a street i remember well and will remember. tough fights were why because ? in the cellars which were stored, germans lived there, civilian germans residents of this area. basements

were generally operated by our submachine gunners , motorized riflemen and other sappers. you see, the defending germans fought in the basements. in general, we had rather minor troubles, heavy losses. the fact is that we passed, for example, some 300-400 m there, in such a way that one tank, another on the right, one on the left fired, to the right, another to the left, and so on, we had to work out such a method, of course, it was difficult, and the fact is that you were going through the slacks, you had to bring ammunition to eat, refuel the tanks, or

personally feed them well. these areas knew these basements and created serious obstacles to advancing on the path of the main forces, the third strike was set up by the prison for political prisoners, mobids, notorious for the walls and case of the dagestap, the army was attacking the prison, could not ignore the prison, had to be stormed, but the troops kuznetsov moved here, in fact, on a very narrow front, there was a rumor that they were allegedly in prison. we grievances lies doom. here. well, it was a political prison. there were prisoners and telman was also our famous one, so jalil's garden, that is, they were leaving. there was their punishment at that time,

of course, these days, among those who stormed the prison, one of the future heroes of the capture, the reichstag, the commander of the 756th infantry regiment, fyodor zinchenko, was no longer among those who stormed the prison . i say don't know the names of these soldiers, but it was necessary to break through this wall to bring them to the square and pull them out to the square. uh, large-caliber, the gun needed a tractor. yes, the fighters sat down, three people lay down. for what for the levers of the tractor to roll out and the set goal to carry out the task exists, meanwhile our advanced assault groups suddenly begin an underground war to clean up the berlin metro from the sabotage units of the nazis, sappers use the metro and, well, they are local. they are oriented

better than our parts. here, uh, well, so that it doesn't happen . there was a team. there, anti-tank mines made a charge of setting one of the sappers, hesitated at the very last moment. well, the explosion took him 300 meters away . this is a subway bypass we thought, well, that's it, he died forever, but he stopped and went. by 18:00, the 51st and 53rd guards tank brigades reach berliner strasse, these assault detachments included tanks that supported the infantry and

all sorts of artillery were connected there. uh, there are movable uh weapons. yes, it all moved together. created greater strength and greater maneuverability for this assault squad. they acted very successfully and in the end. here is the 28th of april. we can say that fishing tankers have already turned out to be, so to speak, very close. here is the target rake. and to the west of the battle-covered capital of the reich, the neighborhood under the lady here, parts of the first ukrainian front unexpectedly collided with the 12th army of walter wenck, who is rushing to berlin to help adolf hitler, one of the participants in the battle, the commander. division ulrich vongotten lieutenant general, gerhart engel writes about the battle of april 28, so just two regiments. we scattered two russian divisions. but this is a lie, in fact

, only two brigades fall under the sudden blow of the twelfth army of the nazis, the fourth tank army, lelyushenko, in a hurry brandenburg. general lilyushenko reports to marshal konev that the seventies self-propelled brigade sent by him and parts of the fourth and fifth mechanized corps are holding back the onslaught of the germans going to break through, in the afternoon our commanders understand that walter weng himself does not believe in the success of his sudden outline. the blow starts to choke. tell ivan stepanovich and here is the resistance of the germans. here are blows with a wreath, blows with beads, this is the ninth army, as i already said, which fought in this already semi-encirclement, he says advancing our troops of the red army, i compare, of course, i compare and i can tell you that i already understand the wreath to some extent that he cannot break through the corridor so that the german group jumps out of the encircled ring. this ninth army's beads can't pop out hmm and he sort of led

protocol fights. yes, well, yes professionally, but here's some kind of emotional almost, almost bitterness, almost self-sacrifice. he says, i saw it, just in the actions of the ninth army. she fought to the last very much. there is no reason for the weng to send a message to the ladies, where the garrison of general rayman is waiting for him to break through. we wo n't get through to you. get through to us. reiman collects 20,000 of his fighters from losses breaks through to the advanced units of the schild division and ulrich von guten when this success is reported to hitler by the clock in bunker show 18:30 föhr rejoices the hungarian is already almost in the poddam to berlin one throw. he still does not know that soon the wreath will have to break back back, to surrender to the americans. by evening

, having overcome the brigades, babajanyan's 11th guards tank corps begins to force the langver canal, but there he is met by heavy fire, and there, and he was in front of them. so the german langverg, this city channel is just a three-meter revenge. and for a long time they could not pass, and simply unthinkable things were invented for in order to cross this channel there up to the point that, uh, a separate group of scouts crossed this channel there through some kind of sewer pipes, that is, right up to this really. the fights were very hard. then they faced very stubborn resistance and katukov. again, this principle is normal. if something does not work out, then the biceps are necessary for all the forces. if there are any sharp reasons, good reasons, because there was a break here. struggling

along like this like this ling strassy herman gel, immediately objectively was not. that's why they changed their direction, they just took it and turned the corps in order to break through the other way through the teergart park, meanwhile, the eighth guards mechanized corps and parts of the eighth army. chuikov is attacked by the fortified positions of the nazis in the park, tirgan. nordgard, despite the fact that this park there was a bunch of trenches sitting, the eighteenth and twentieth twenties of the nader division, e, chaikov tried to take the twenty-eighth. they weren't allowed by the germans here. he is able to do this by assault groups suffer losses from the actions of hitler juding, teenagers hit faust with cartridges on our tank. what to do? no no there, wait, come on, there, let's see, we need to try to disarm them somehow. they then approached the front line, as the cartridges fired, when it flew there, everything

explodes in the same place. it’s not weak, it’s here, but they were forced to open fire. what to do to wait? while our, or something, soldiers are killed, the foreman drags two literally snotty boys by the ears like that, you cry, they say something like that, and uh, well officers, what can you do with them there comrade officer there you know, you know your business, yes, and these bastards, like ta-ta-ta, they ran straight out into the streets and shot our cars with the foreman and the foreman who came from moscow died from tanks, of which we already had few left. a dozen tanks were created assault groups tank sapper sappers submachine gunners. and, of course, honest interaction

with three rifle units in this way. only we could go through heavy battles, there were big ones losses. we had hitler five metro stations and other strongholds, the nazis, the enemy's urban areas. our troops stormed through the germans of the district railway. fighting was going on in the streets at that moment in part of the 150th rifle division, the third shock army was already standing on the shore. the spree at the bridge is only a few hundred meters away. why hitler unexpected

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's mother's asterisk premiere may 10 at 15:00 on ntv tonight april 28, 1945 artillery salute in honor of the troops of the second byelorussian front of marshal rokossovsky who with battles captured almost the entire pomerania north of berlin all newspapers publish the appeal of stalin churchill and truman after meeting with the allies on the elbe we met in devoted and victorious friendship and with unshakable determination to fulfill our task and our duty forward to the enemy writes winston churchill great britain 21:00 bbc journalists talk about the negotiations between heinrich himler and the representative of the international red cross , count bernadotte, regarding a separate peace with

england and the united states late in the evening to the commandant of berlin and the commander of the defense of the city, helmut welling. it is reported that the fuhrer is waiting for him at night for a meeting in the bunker, the general plans at this meeting to propose his plan for saving the leadership, the third reich and combat-ready units. the wehrmacht and the ss however, the fuhrer already has his own new plan, with the help of the ninth army and three more armies urgently removed from the western front, to surround the russian grouping. storming the capital of the reich and arrange stalingrad here only now for them and destroy them right in berlin from the soviet information bureau, the troops of the first belorussian front, continuing to conduct street battles in berlin, captured the city area on the offense of the angarsk railway station from 177 quarters of the

central part of the city. on april 28 in berlin, the troops of the front captured more than 6,000 german soldiers and officers and captured the following tropics of aircraft 83 with the revival of 150 machine guns in 480. and motor vehicles 2.500 steam locomotives 139 railway cars 209 with military equipment 30. berlin the last commandant of berlin, general of artillery, helmut wedlek, offers to break out of the city by gathering into a single fist all the combat-ready remnants of the wehrmacht units, the ss division norman but the fuhrer should cover the withdrawal, categorically against and hitler

continued to insist on the resistance of the fuhrer. still hopes for the 12th army of walther wreath. according to his plan, the russian troops gathered in berlin should be surrounded and arranged for them, stalingrad right here, the capital of the third reich, hitler expected that the german ninth army, operating in the south east berlin and the army operating against the allies west of berlin with the support of the tank army. circling and defeating the soviet troops m, seated in the government quarter, reinforcements arrive in the dead of night, the nazis throw paratroopers to the reichstag building. this is one of the last operations of the german luftwaffe during the war. and they dropped it there, which means that many mistakenly believe that this is some kind of marine corps.

actually. they were cadets of the naval school from the city of rostock dropped a parachute landing, thereby strengthening, and the position of the defenders of the reichstag. moscow the kremlin headquarters of the supreme commander- in-chief at that moment reported to stalin that kuznetsov's third shock army had come out in the immediate vicinity of the government of the new quarter. in addition to the reichstag. the gestapa ministry of the interior is located there. the so -called himmler's house and the royal opera house are all buildings. well fortified and ready for many days of defense. path for the troops. kuznetsov is blocked by the river, zabetoni. embankments 3 m high in the dark units of the 171st infantry division move to the other side and begin reconnaissance in combat on the outskirts of the reichstag. the main task is to capture the bridge in order to transport the german sappers to the other side, spurs, tanks and artillery. only this is what the german sappers are waiting

to blow up the bridge with the russians . this bridge is a large molt across the river spree, through which it was only necessary to cross and occupy the embankment, which was also fortified by german sappers. in general, they tried to undermine it, but the bridge remained standing. he was just a little deformed. and some bridges had time to blow up, some did not have time, some were not replaced at all. or they failed to manage this explosion. early in the morning, units of the third shock army begin to storm the barricades on the other side of the bridge, one of our divisions of the ninth rifle corps was ordered to turn around these barricades ; as if , uh, next they crossed more, in principle, uh, fighting. at night they were just passing in

order to take the bridge of the molka under control and go to the house of hitler to the himlers, all the barriers were disabled fighters to the very center of hitler. regiment 756 came out and went out to the krikstag, all through his own positions, went to the neighboring point of the semi- prikordanov, entered himmler's house, and that's it. they settled down pulling up. so to speak, the rest of the reserves. under cover. again, heavy howitzer and cannon batteries. there, they simply swept away this defense, which they built in the windows, with a hurricane of fire. as part of the second guards mortar brigade is firing at the lair, the nazi artilleryman boris muller at the nearest government building center, which is a

battle in berlin, the world was worried these days, joyful things the red army in berlin, a flying strike, the war is raging berlin enough, berlin gets full measure for everything colondon, kaliningrad to warsaw for smolensk voronezh for thousands of cities for tens of thousands of entire villages. the worst thing is that, first of all, the end. he was seen approaching and it was very. sad when before your eyes, the death of people, military red army soldiers

, and so on. all this was visible, it was very difficult to hide, of course, especially. an infantryman here, well , now, in case vera was already ours. well, this was one of the first to be taken across the bridge by moths, breaking through, the 756th rifle regiment. the company of captain pankratov the soldiers move in short dashes, crouching a few meters before the barricade pankratov straightens up to his full height, shoots on the run and immediately receives an automatic burst in the chest. wounded here, pankrat, the fighters picked it up and struck it, as they see it in

denmark flaks running in a cross. it turns out the german lord back. well, the german surgeon did not allow it, he performed the operation, and then pankratov met even after the war, that's all. that is, how would the subordinate captain survive at this moment. pankratov's infantryman kuzma gusev is thrown from the bridge into the river by an explosion, everything is considered that after some time gusev appears dead after some time to rise here, it is almost impossible to say three-meter banks. everything is in granite, but nevertheless, somewhere there he received a shell shock. yah managed to get out and return to his unit. meanwhile, in the south-southwest of

berlin, parts of the first ukrainian front continue to advance. the troops of the first ukrainian front fought street battles in the southwestern part of berlin, the enemy resisted, relying on defensive fortifications built along the district railway, soviet units with the support of artillery, broke through the enemy defenses and occupied the german railway stations, tried to gain a foothold in the park area, however, our soldiers overcame numerous barricades constructed from the paving stones of the dismantled tailpipes have cleared the park of the enemy and are fighting in the berlination area, because well, well, it was impossible. it was necessary to lead. just imagine how many of these people you answer. you yourself are for them in your head of your life, yes, the commander of the first ukrainian

told his daughters that there were no cowards among those who stormed berlin. papa was asked. well, what about the people who went to the last curtains? it's already 28. yes, 29 people tried to somehow convey themselves to the victory, that is, they behaved somehow cautiously. he says i did not see this. i was shocked that there is a similar urge to finish this as soon as possible to clean it all up today on april 29th. marshal konev spends almost the whole day on the front lines of stalin, he gave the order that the commanders somehow insure themselves to move on an armored personnel carrier on some kind of armored personnel carrier to protect them, but my father spoke during the battles. it's so inconvenient. it's so past and he moved around most of the time and i have photos. i see that it is so poured, what are they doing, this is an open car, but insanely maneuverable berlin is still resisted. but these were his last hours.

the soldiers of the third shock army are already fighting on the outskirts of the reichstag, in fact, several divisions have been fighting for a year. they went in parallel, 171 divisions 150 divisions 207 divisions. well, how, because the soldiers already felt the troops. here comes the victory, the mood was of incredible strength. that is, how to say the task was to force the spree to get out of the cross, and the third tank armies did it. eighth guards and fifth shock army. all of them could start an assault on the reichstag. but then the losses would not be commensurate more, therefore, the command orders the reichstag to be taken by the third shock army unit of kuznetsov, which at the very beginning of the berlin operation was assigned a completely different role. the preparation of the

forcing is another third third shock army. uh, i just found out that their direction was berlin, that is, towards berlin, but this trajectory was supposed to bypass berlin from the north, so, as we look at the map, the fifth shock army was supposed to deliver the main blow to berlin. army in derzareno third shock army. kuznetsova bypassed from the north but when the berlin operation began on april 16. the fifth shock army lingered a little on the zielov heights. and already the direction of the third shock army. was corrected for berlin

after a powerful artillery preparation, the advanced units of kuznetsov's army begin the assault. the main citadel of the gestapo executioners was the building of the ministry of the interior of the reich, the house of himmler, as the soldiers call it, this building was located. it's literally like across the square. but in fact, the assault did not go in such a way that, again, it had a great effect, like the serious preparation of the germans. to the defense affected the presence, just the same, highly effective weapons for urban battles. it was his huge building. there defended 1,000 people, in fact, so they supported him from a neighboring building, except for the operas. there, the guns stood on the second floor, heavy, which they thrashed, which means our troops. at the same time, an assault begins on the thoroughly fortified complex of neighboring

buildings of the swiss embassy and the royal opera , it is curious that they say that some of the embassy staff. i mean, ah, the soviet troops had to pass between them. well, that is to imagine what it looks like. uh, when you have to send manpower between two buildings and some kind of fire will be fired at them from each window of these buildings. by noon, the embassies were completely cleared, but the opera building and himmler's house, until day 29 can not be taken, were used to ensure that separate platoons of submachine gunners and attack aircraft, and armed with grenades to clear these two buildings with explosives, the ministry of internal affairs, of the third reich, himmler's house and the building of the king of the opera in order, well, to secure their rears, so that, well, roughly speaking, they don’t shoot in the back, when the troops are already

going , e. tanks, on the other side, spray already, well, in the battles of the twenty- ninth of the thirtieth. and the soviet troops got the opportunity to count on the support of heavy tanks, which was very important after the tanks across the cartoon bridge. on the fitting jet mortar by boris muller in general, we crossed over to the other side towards the side closer to the center, which is facing, we crossed our installations. then they could participate in full force. uh, these uh, very mobile. well, now there are uzbeks, who are installed, they were walking along the bridge with formidable force , troops are advancing, the fifth shock army. berzarin

's progress is slowed down by constant unexpected attacks, not finished off by the nazis, it was especially hard on the 29th in any way. they could not understand this system, how the germans get out. the steak was, then in there was shooting in another place and they could not in any way come from where her shooting came from. well, some kind of underground communication, from where they knew everything was berlin, both ground and underground, as they recall. i had to, uh, communicate with many participants in those events, veterans, you will go through something, it seems, everyone went through everything turned out to be resistance, they come from the rear, that is, they hit underground communications. in the rear

of our advancing troops there remains an irkha, turned by the nazis into impregnable bastion jerusalem strasse, which parts of the fifth armies can't.