Victory Banner (Soviet Union): Difference between revisions

{{short description|Banner raised by Red Army soldiers in Berlin one day after Hitler committed suicide}}

The Soviet '''Banner of Victory''' ({{lang-ru|Знамя Победы|translit=Znamya Pobedy}}) was the [[banner]] raised by the [[Red Army]] [[soldier]]s on the [[Reichstag building]] in [[Berlin]] on 1 May 1945,<ref>[http://www.rg.ru/2007/05/08/znamya.html Федеральный закон от 7 мая 2007 г. № 68-ФЗ «О Знамени Победы»] // Собрание законодательства Российской Федерации от 14 мая 2007 г. № 20 ст. 2369 (in Russian)</ref> the day after [[Adolf Hitler]] [[Death of Adolf Hitler|committed suicide]]. It was raised by three [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] soldiers: Ukrainian [[Alexei Berest]], Russian [[Mikhail Yegorov]], and Georgian [[Meliton Kantaria]].

On the 30th of April 1945 at 14:25 (2:25 pm) the soldiers of [[Ranks_and_insignia_of_the_Soviet_Armed_Forces_1943%E2%80%931955|Senior SergeantLieutenant]] SyanovSorokin's group fought their way to the roof and reached the dome. The courageous warriors - [[Political_commissar|Communistordinary Lieutenantsoldier]] Berest Grigorij Bulatov, [[Komsomol]] Member Privateparty Egorovorganizer Viktor Pravotorov and partyless JuniorSenior Sergeant KantariaIvan Lysenko, Stepan Oreshko have erected a banner, the proud flag of the Soviet Union over the German parliamentary building, a symbol of our Great Victory.

|source={{Cite book |url=http://militera.lib.ru/docs/da/berlin_45/04.html |title=Russian archive: Second World War: B. 15 (4-5). Fight for Berlin (Red Army in the defeated Germany) |location=Moscow |publisher=Terra |year=1995 |chapter=Chapter III. «Banner above Reichtag» }}}}

[[File:Alexander Khodakovsky press conference Aug 9, 2014.jpg|thumb|240px|[[Alexander Khodakovsky]] holding a press conference in front of the Victory Banner.]]

[[File:MoscowBessmertniy Victory Day Parade (2019) 70Polk.jpg|thumb|240px|During the2018 [[2019Immortal MoscowRegiment]] participants march with a Soviet Victory DayBanner Paradein [[Saint Petersburg]].]]

[[File:BanderaMoscow deVictory laDay VictoriaParade flameando(2019) 70.webmjpg|thumb|240px|VideoDuring ofthe a[[2019 wavingMoscow Victory BannerDay on [[Sparrow HillsParade]], [[Moscow]].]]

A planned part of the [[Moscow Victory Parade of 1945]] was supposed to be the march of the Victory Banner, which was delivered to Moscow from [[Berlin]] on 20 June and was supposed to begin the procession of troops on 24 June. Despite this, the weak drill training of Yegorov, Kantaria and [[Stepan Neustroev]] forced Marshal [[Georgy Zhukov]] to not go ahead with this portion of the parade.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pnisintek.ru/en/pervyi-parad-pobedy-god-istoriya-parada-pobedy-kak-eto-bylo/ |title=The first victory parade of the year. Victory Parade History: How It Was |access-date=2020-06-30 |archive-date=2021-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225145332/https://pnisintek.ru/en/pervyi-parad-pobedy-god-istoriya-parada-pobedy-kak-eto-bylo/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> On May 9, during [[Victory Day (May 9)|Victory Day]] [[Moscow Victory Day Parade|parade]] in [[Moscow]], a copy of Victory Banner #5 is carried immediately behind the [[Flag of Russia|Russian flag]] by members of the [[154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment|Moscow Commandant's Regiment]] Honor and Colors Guards. (In 2015 the order was reversed.) During the [[Minsk Independence Day Parade|Independence Day Parade]] and the Victory Parade in [[Minsk]], the color guard consisting of the [[Flag of Belarus]], the Victory Banner and the [[Flag of the USSR]] are the first to march in the parade. The Victory Banner was brought to [[Kyiv]] from [[Moscow]] in October 2004 to take part in the parade in honor of the [[60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Ukraine]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} This is the first instance of Russia sending the banner to a former [[Republics of the Soviet Union|Soviet Republic]]. In 2015, the banner was brought to [[Astana]] (the capital of [[Kazakhstan]]) to be trooped through [[Kazakh Eli Square]] by personnel of the [[Aibyn Presidential Regiment]] in the [[Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)|Defender of the Fatherland Day]] parade on 7 May.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://astanatimes.com/2015/04/historic-scenes-retro-military-equipment-to-be-presented-in-victory-parade/|title=Historic Scenes, Retro Military Equipment to be Presented in Victory Parade - The Astana Times|date=2015-04-24|work=The Astana Times|access-date=2017-10-20|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2020, during the first Victory Parade held in [[Ashgabat]], the Banner was brought from Russia to be trooped on the square near the [[Halk Hakydasy Memorial Complex]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/63347 | title=Telephone conversation with President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov | date=12 May 2020 }}</ref>

On 9 May 2017, the largest copy of the Victory Banner measuring 60 by 25 meters was deployed on [[Great National Assembly Square]] in the [[Moldova]]n capital of [[ChisinauChișinău]]. The banner was sewn at a local factory over a period of two weeks.<ref>[https://www.kp.md/daily/26676.7/3698884/ Такого мир ещё не видел: В Молдове развернули самое большое Знамя Победы] // kp.md</ref> In 2020, sailors of the Russian [[Northern Fleet]] raised the banner over distant parts of the [[Russian Arctic]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kxan36news.com/military-sailors-of-the-northern-fleet-will-raise-the-victory-banner-over-the-arctic?amp |title = Military sailors of the Northern fleet will raise the victory Banner over the Arctic {{!}} KXAN36 - Austin Daily News| date=9 May 2020 }}</ref>