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It was Mikhail Minen, a Soviet hero, who first planted the Red Army flag in the Parliament Building in Berlin. 1922 was born, and194/kloc-0 joined the army in June to fight against Nazi Germans. He took part in the liberation of Leningrad and fought with the army all the way to Berlin. 1945 On April 30th, the Soviet Red Army captured the Parliament Building. Before the capture of Berlin, Stalin of the Soviet Union ordered that a red flag be planted on the roof of the Parliament Building before May 1.

Under this call, Mien and five other soldiers held a red flag and finally managed to reach the top of the building. At first, they were not sure where to insert the red flag, but Mien noticed the crown on the statue at the top of the building, so she climbed up the statue, inserted the metal bar with the red flag into the crown, and fixed the red flag with a belt. History will remember this eternal moment-April 30th afternoon 10, 1945.

The establishment of the red flag declared the demise of Nazi Germany. The following month, Mien won the title of "Soviet hero".

After World War II, Minen continued to serve. Minen graduated from the Military Academy on 1959 and moved to Pskov State on 1977 until his death. He was buried in his hometown of Pskov, Russia on June 65438+1October 65438+February 2008.

It is worth noting that the famous photo of "Victory Flag Inserted into the Empire State Building" originally published in Pravda of the former Soviet Union was later fabricated, and it was not Minen who waved the flag in the photo. On May 2nd, yevgeny Khaldei, a 28-year-old Soviet war photographer, was ordered to take a news photo of the Soviet flag planted with five stars, hammers and sickles in the German Reichstag, because the reporters embedded in the army failed to capture the moment when the Red Army planted the flag on April 30th. Khaldei took his Leica camera, a Soviet flag and two Red Army soldiers, Abdul Hakim ismailov and Mikhail Yegorov, to the burnt-out parliament building and took 36 photos with a whole roll of film. The published photos were also post-processed: the black smoke in the background was later made on the negative film, which made people feel that the war was still going on. The soldier is wearing a stolen watch on both wrists. When the photo was published, the watch was scraped off the negative by Khaldei with a needle. In order to cooperate with the photo publicity, the official text reported that Red Army Staff Sergeant Kontha Leah and Ye Gerloff took the lead in planting the flag of the former Soviet Union in the Capitol with sickles and axes. This marks the end of the great Soviet Patriotic War and the final victory of the anti-fascist allies in the European battlefield in World War II. The "victory flag inserted into the Empire State Building" later became a symbol of the Red Army's victory over Nazi Germany. This photo was included in every textbook in Germany and became the collective memory of both Germany and Russia.