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The men who stormed the Reichstag to raise the Banner of Victory: Capt. Konstantin Samsonov, Jr. Sgt. Meliton Kantaria, Capt. Stepan Neustroyev,  Sgt. Mikhail Yegorov, Sgt. Maj. Ilya Syanov

Victory banner 1945

Fifteen-year old Misha Petrov, a partisan courier, poses with a German MP-38 SMG. He has also borrowed a German army leather belt and carries a Soviet-made anti-personnel grenade RGD-33 tacked in his boot, also borrowed from the enemy. His morale appears high. His chances of survival are statistically against him.