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Venezuela raised world’s largest Victory Banner to honor USSR’s defeat of Nazi Germany (www.rt.com)

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The Venezuelan authorities have raised a giant replica of the Banner of Victory in the capital, Caracas, to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Soviet Union. Red Army troops hoisted the flag of the USSR atop the Reichstag building in Berlin on May 1, 1945.

The banner, measuring 25 by 11 meters – the largest ever displayed outside Russia – was hoisted in the Venezuelan capital on April 30. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared the date the ‘Day of the Victory of Mankind over Fascism’.

On April 30, 1945, Red Army soldiers broke into the Reichstag through breaches in the walls and captured the building. The legendary Red Banner No. 5, which later became the famed Victory Banner, was raised on top of the Reichstag dome by soldiers from the 756th Rifle Regiment – Sergeant Mikhail Egorov and Junior Sergeant Meliton Kantariya.

“In 1945, on a day like today, the world heard on the radio and learned from telegraphic messages – there were no social networks then, no satellites – that the Red Army of the Soviet Union had entered Berlin, defeated Hitler, and planted the banner of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag,” Maduro said.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Using the times when the USSR was actually the second world power (due to socialism) to stoke the flames of Russian nationalism. Not really that surprising to me, seems like a fairly cheap thing to do, in the same way thay fascists in my country can simultaneously be islamophobic and arab-phobic and be "proud of the rich cultural heritage of Al-Andalus in Spain" and visit the Alhambra in Granada.