the Head of the Federation Council Committee on information policy Alexei Pushkov praised the statement of the foreign Ministry of Ukraine about the fact that ethnic Ukrainian was one of the first red Army soldiers hoisted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag. About it he wrote at himself on Twitter.
we will Remind that earlier the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine issued a statement which claimed that Soviet flag over the Reichstag first established a Ukrainian-born Stepan Oreshko, and the USSR supposedly “distorted facts” and deliberately forgotten the name of the Ukrainian red army. “We must remember the facts and not the myths”, – stated in the message.
Pushkov said that in the minds of Ukrainian “elite” there is an incredible mishmash of Russophobia, kowtowing to the West, an inferiority complex and a pathological desire to be first. “Even in the hated hoisting the red banner over the Reichstag”, – he noted.
meanwhile, the scientific Director of the Russian military historical society Mikhail Myagkov explained to RIA Novosti that in 1945 hoisted on the Reichstag about 40 improvised assault and official flags. Because it was impossible to predict which one of the first red army capture the Reichstag, the flags were given to representatives of the parts which carried out the assault.
Previously, social media users complained on Facebook, which began to remove the photos, which the Soviet soldiers set the victory Banner over the Reichstag. As it turned out, the image block because they “violate community standards in relation to dangerous people and organizations.” The company said that removing the photos was due to “a failure in the algorithm”, and then apologized.
