74 years ago hoisted the No. 5 flag over the Reichstag. Red Banner of Victory

74 years ago, in the late evening of April 30, 1945, the forward detachment of fighters in the person of Sergeant Mikhail Egorov and Junior Sergeant Meliton Kantaria set up flag No. 5 over the Reichstag. The Red Banner of Victory, fluttering over the fighting that had continued, became a symbol of the final collapse of Nazism.

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Did this victory really bring peace?
Or was she a means of distracting attention from something more important?