the fifth shock army lingered a little on the zielov heights. 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 t

not going to surrender, on his orders, berlin was turned into a large defensive fortress and the zielov heights became the first defensive line to it. it was here that the first belarusian front was under command. marshal zhukov launched his famous attack on berlin, which, after 16 terrible days full of blood and heroism, ended with the fall of the capital of the fascist reich . however, the surprise of the germans. still, waiting for 400 powerful searchlights with the beginning of the attack flared up in the rear, the advancing soviet troops as planned. marshal zhukov, they were supposed to blind the enemy and cause some researchers to panic in his ranks they believe that because of the morning fog, as well as because of the smoke and harry, who rose after the start of the artillery preparation for the offensive. the famous zhukovsky searchlights did not interfere with the enemy in any way. but is it really so? no not like this. i participated in the war from stalingrad to berlin. this is the foreground to the seelow heights. we overcame more, the sun did not rise from the searchlights