We stormed the Reichstag

Subbotin, Vasiliĭ2025

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In 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union Vassili Subbotin was caught up as an ordinary soldier in the Red Army's great retreat. In 1945, during the final days of the war, as a war correspondent, he went into Berlin with the troops who fought the ferocious final battles in the streets and sealed Germany's defeat. Later he recorded in vivid impressionistic detail the climax of the last act of the campaign and of the entire war in the east - the storming of the Reichstag which came to symbolize of the Soviet victory over the Nazis. His first-hand experience of that final operation - and his insight into the small band of ordinary soldiers who played a part in it - is graphically conveyed in this memoir.