Stepan Andreyevich Neustroyev commanded the battalion that stormed the Reichstag in 1945 and hoisted the flag over the building. This is one of the most famous images of World War Two and only in 1997 did it become known that the photo had been doctored. Photographer Khaldei had made the flag in the photograph himself from red tablecloths from Tass, the Soviet press agency, emblazoned with the Soviet hammer and sickle. Erich Kuby's book The Russians and Berlin, page 60, says:
It seems strange that the Russians should have looked upon the Reichstag, ... now an empty piece of masonry, its windows and doors bricked up, as the symbol of Germany. ... Mednikov describes this historic action in great detail:

"About noon on April 28 [1945], one of our battalions advanced on the Spree. At the same time the commander of the regiment, Col. F.M. Zinchenko, took charge of a red banner ... expressly set aside for planting on the dome. It was Red Banner No. 5 of the [150th Rifle Division] 3rd Shock Army ... [it was] twenty-three-year-old Capt. Stefan Andreyevich Noystroev men [who] battled their way into the building, fighting for every room and corridor. ... Noystroev ordered a shock detachment commanded by Lt. Berest to escort the two standard-bearers ... [who] took nearly half a day to reach the dome. At 10:50 p.m. on April 30, the banner of victory was unfurled over the Reichstag."

By nine in the morning, the sightseeing was finished. “It was the dream of my life to be permitted to see Paris,” Hitler told Speer. “I cannot say how happy I am to have that dream fulfilled today.”

A few hours later, Hitler spoke to Speer in the Führer field headquarters, a small room of a peasant house in Brûly de Pesche. “Draw up a decree in my name ordering full-scale resumption of work on the Berlin buildings...Wasn’t Paris beautiful? But Berlin must be made far more beautiful. In the past I often considered whether we would have to destroy Paris. But when we are finished in Berlin, Paris will only be a shadow. So why should we destroy it?” Hitler spoke with great calm, Speer remembered, as though the monstrous vandalism he contemplated was the most natural thing in the world.

I seriously think Pearl Harbour is a conspiracy.
Intended to allow fellow AM3R1CAN0s to allow them to go to war with their allies.

I think they actually could've avoided it but...

I always see that Western Front has the most attention, I blame it on media.

Eastern Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II))

EF features some of the brutal battles and few mistakes made by both Hitler and Stalin. However I can't help but feel amazed how the Soviet beat back the Blitzkrieg from the Krauts parked their army right in front of Moscow's door step in winter all the way to Berlin to end the war.

North Africa Campaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_Campaign)

Another lesser known campaign that pit British Commonwealth against the Afrika Corps.

Last but not least.

Pacific Campaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_campaign)

With US leading against the Imperial Japan. BTW HBO new mini series The Pacific, brought to you by makers of Band of Brothers, is now airing, currently on part 2.

The raising of the flag over Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima

^ this should be the "fake" flag raising event. The real flag raisers were off deeper into the island killing each other by now. The new recruits raised this backup flag and kept the real one.

I always see that Western Front has the most attention, I blame it on media.

Eastern Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II))

EF features some of the brutal battles and few mistakes made by both Hitler and Stalin. However I can't help but feel amazed how the Soviet beat back the Blitzkrieg from the Krauts parked their army right in front of Moscow's door step in winter all the way to Berlin to end the war.

North Africa Campaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_Campaign)

Another lesser known campaign that pit British Commonwealth against the Afrika Corps.

Last but not least.

Pacific Campaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_campaign)

With US leading against the Imperial Japan. BTW HBO new mini series The Pacific, brought to you by makers of Band of Brothers, is now airing, currently on part 2.

I seriously think Pearl Harbour is a conspiracy.
Intended to allow fellow AM3R1CAN0s to allow them to go to war with their allies.

I think they actually could've avoided it but...

The raising of the flag over Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima

^ this should be the "fake" flag raising event. The real flag raisers were off deeper into the island killing each other by now. The new recruits raised this backup flag and kept the real one.

Ah yes Stalingrad. Anyone who is interested in the WW2's turning point, I recommend Antony Beevor's Stalingrad (Published by Penguin). So far I am halfway done, but it features extensive details of the war surrounding Stalingrad.

In Eastern Front, the so called invincible pan-European army led by the Nazi Germany become defeat-able. Thanks to the ferocity of the Soviet's resistance and counter-attack. Also inactivity of Imperial Japan against Soviet Union.
Hope people don't forget or belittle the role of the Soviet's heroic Red Army....

And also, we shouldn't forget the role Stalin played in the extermination of Polish prisoners of war. All of them murdered on the order of Stalin himself. One of the many atrocities during WWII.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

Wonder why you bring this up....Any reason? Any motives? The usual steps of trying to negate the contribution of the Soviet Red Army in defeating the Axis?  Or you dislike the truth that it was actually the heroic and notorious Soviet Red Army are the deciding factor of the Axis downfall?  

Never let atrocities over-shadowed contribution and vice versa. Remember both of them. Soviet Red Army major contribution in defeating the Axis should not be brush a side just because of some atrocities committed by them. American GI also did terrible things but I don't see you post them up here.
Also, a decision of a sadistic man over-shadowed the contribution of the soldiers fighting for their motherland  in the battlefront......tragic. 

Wonder why you bring this up....Any reason? Any motives? The usual steps of trying to negate the contribution of the Soviet Red Army in defeating the Axis?  Or you dislike the truth that it was actually the heroic and notorious Soviet Red Army are the deciding factor of the Axis downfall?  

Never let atrocities over-shadowed contribution and vice versa. Remember both of them. Soviet Red Army major contribution in defeating the Axis should not be brush a side just because of some atrocities committed by them. American GI also did terrible things but I don't see you post them up here.
Also, a decision of a sadistic man over-shadowed the contribution of the soldiers fighting for their motherland  in the battlefront......tragic. 

Operation Market Garden (September 17–25, 1944) was an Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in World War II. It was the largest airborne operation of all time.[nb 3]

The operation plan's strategic context required the seizure of bridges across the Maas (Meuse River) and two arms of the Rhine (the Waal and the Lower Rhine) as well as several smaller canals and tributaries. Crossing the Lower Rhine would allow the Allies to outflank the Siegfried Line and encircle the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland. It made large-scale use of airborne forces whose tactical objectives were to secure a series of bridges over the main rivers of the German-occupied Netherlands and allow a rapid advance by armoured units into Northern Germany.

Initially the operation was successful and several bridges between Eindhoven and Nijmegen were captured. However the ground force's advance was delayed by the demolition of a bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal at Son,[7] delaying the capture of the main road bridge over the Meuse until September 20. At Arnhem the British 1st Airborne Division encountered far stronger resistance than anticipated. In the ensuing battle only a small force managed to hold one end of the Arnhem road bridge and after the ground forces failed to relieve them they were overrun on the 21st. The rest of the division, trapped in a small pocket west of the bridge, had to be evacuated on the 25th. The Allies had failed to cross the Rhine in sufficient force, and the Rhine remained a barrier to their advance until the offensives at Remagen, Oppenheim, Rees and Wesel in March 1945.