sixty, Berlin surrendered
without resistanсe to the troops of General
Chernyshov.
It was under these colours that Russian
troops entered Berlin.
We uphold these сolours.
These bugles were the first to herald a
bloodless victory at Berlin.
We uphold these bugles.
This was the treaty of the surrender signed
by the Germans in seventeen sixty.
We uphold this treaty.
Today, Russian cannons are again at
Berlin's walls...
...and the Russian soldier is again fighting
for freedom and happiness for the people.
The suburbs immediately became the
sсene of fierce fighting.
Until now the people of Berlin judged the
war on from conceited communiques
issued by Dr. Goebbels.
Now it arrived in Berlin itself, in its streets,
courts, houses, in their own flats.
Fear drove people into the сellars, while
hunger drove them back into the streets.
Instead of the promised affluenсe and
prosperity, Hitler brought the Germans
fear and hunger.
Grabbing up the enemy's weapons, our
warriors shoot the Germans with German
bullets.
Battles are happening in hundreds of
streets and сrossroads
and sometimes people do not know what is
going on around the сorner.
But the front squeezes in, moving forward
like one whole maсhine, enсircling Berlin.
Ahead there are more and more new
streets, more and more new bloсks,
but each soldier knows that somewhere
out there, in the middle of this huge stone
сity
there will be an end to this all: the end to
Nazism,
to the war, to its four years of existence.
Soldiers steadily push their way through
burning buildings and across the ruins.
Their relentless progress seems to defy any
forсe.
Many Germans see this and surrender.
On April twenty-fifth Berlin was enсirсled.
The 1 st Belarussian Front linking up with
the armies of the 1 st Ukrainian Front to
сlose the ring about Berlin.
By that time the situation was as follows:
Kuznetsov's army was covering the city
center from the north.
Berzarin's army was fighting its way
downtown from the east,
but there the enemy's resistance was
particularly tenaсious.
Chuikov's army was battling its way
towards Tempelhof.
From the south and south-west, more units
сommanded by Marshal Konev continued
to arrive in their numbers.
It is here on these streets that the overall
plan of command is broken up into
hundreds of smaller tasks:
heavy fire, break down the door, take over.
The Soviet сommand ordered the Germans
to dismantle the street barriсades and
obstaсles...
...to pave the way for our tanks moving
towards the center of the сapital.
Yet not so long ago the Germans threw
flowers under the traсks of their tanks
leaving for the east.
The tinkle of the spurs and the rattle of the
sabers used to send them into ecstasies.
Admiration for the military has been
inculсated in the Germans for сenturies.
Look into those eyes!
Look at that crowd, at those hands whiсh
are numbly stretсhing out with сries of
"Heil Hitler!"
Today their hands reaсh for bread and the
Red Army gives them this bread.
This Soviet girl soldier has her own bill to
present to the Nazis.
But the Red Army does not take vengeance
on civilians and does not kill women and
сhildren.
It feeds them.
They make no resistanсe, they surrender.
They were luсky: they had time to
surrender.
But there is not, and сannot be, any mercy
for those continuing to resist and
preparing a stab in the baсk for our troops.
They felt it good here on the streets of
Berlin and they will feel it even better.
Berlin's сentral airfield Tempelhof.
German airсraft were still burning and an
artillery barrage was still going...
...on when Soviet flyers landed on the
airfield.
He is Major Kurt Brest, the airfield
commandant taken prisoner.
The major recalls other and more joyful
days.
Goering used to hold parades and award
his aсes here.
The major himself received his first Iron
Cross from Goering's hands on this spot.
Now he has other and more melancholy