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In the Patriot Park on real tanks of the war, a fake Reichstag stamped
More than seven thousand spectators, including Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, visited the military-historical reconstruction of the Sturm Berlin in the Patriot Park near Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Defense. A hundred stuntmen, dozens of samples of technology from the Great Patriotic War, took part in the reconstruction, and a “copy of the Reichstag” from corrugated panels became its symbol in social networks.
"Sturm Berlin" is one of the large -scale events organized by the Ministry of Defense in the Patriot Park. About 1,400 reconstructors, a hundred stuntmen took part in the production. About 30 samples of automobile and armored vehicles of the Great Patriotic War were brought to the field: T-34, IS-2, KV-1 tanks, German Panzerkampfwagen III, Panther, etc. The air duels of the La-7 and Me-109 fighters were announced.
Creating a copy of the Reichstag at the end of February was announced by the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergey Shoigu.
We will build a copy of the Reichstag, they said Pic.twitter.com/hfssvtwa2c
- Philipp Kireev (@MYNAMEISPHILIPP) April 23, 2017
For the audience, thematic platforms were organized, actions on the "battlefield" were accompanied by reports of the Swinformburo and newsreels.
In the fall, the Ministry of Defense plans to show the reconstruction of the battle for Moscow.
The assault on Berlin began on April 25, 1945, heavy city battles, during which the Red Army managed to break through to the Reichstag, took about a week. As RIA Novosti recalls, by the forces of the 1st Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian fronts, the city was taken into a ring, the total length of which was about a hundred kilometers. On April 28, units of the 3rd shock army of the 1st Belorussian Front entered the Reichstag district. By April 30, the Red Army units burst into the Reichstag building, and by the morning of May 1, among the others, the assault flag of the 150th Infantry Division, which became a banner of victory, was touched.