"Occupation" of History: Putin awarded the title

The title was given "for courage, courage and dedication, revealed in the fight against Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. " About it reports TASS. In 1999, the Ministry of Defense of Russia appealed to the Commission on State at the President to consider the possibility of assignment of Brest the title of hero of Russia, but four years later the commission denied request.

The refusal was explained by the fact that the merits of Brest were already awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of Patriotic War of the 1st degree. In 2005, President Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded Brest (he was born in 1921 in the Kharkiv province of the Ukrainian SSR) the title of Hero of Ukraine. Alexei Brest, or Oleksa Berest, was born into Bondar's family in the village of Goryativka (now Sumy region) in 1921 on May 9.

He was an eleventh child, a total of 16 children in the family. In the Holodomor, the children remained orphan, survived only eight of 16. Alexei Brest completed tractor drivers in 1937, in October 1939 he volunteered to the Red Army, and in the 2nd Regiment of Leningrad District Reading in the Winter War of the Finnish People from the Soviet Union. Saved the life of his detachment.

In the Second World War, he has been fighting since June 22, 1941, being a communicator, then became a detachment commander. According to the command, the parlor of a separate company had a great organizational and commissioral abilities, so the Ukrainian was sent to study at the Leningrad Military and Political College located in Shui. Despite the fact that the senior sergeant had an education in only six classes, he was enrolled in the second year.

In December 1943-September 1944, the training continued, and then the junior lieutenant was sent to serve as a deputy from the political part of the Combat of the first battalion of the 756th Rifle Regiment of the 150th Rifle Division of the 1st Belarusian Front. In the unit under the command of Captain Stepan Nestroev (1922-1998), they passed Poland, crossed them through Oder and found themselves in Berlin.

Further, Soviet history was silent that the flag of the victory over the Reichstag was raised by Sergeant Mikhail Yegorov (1923-1975) and junior sergeant Meliton Cantaria (1920-1993) under the direction of Alexei Brest. It was also not told that the flags of the victory were nine and not all of them were on the Reichstag. For example, one of the detachments came to the right place just because he removed the map from the wall of the tram depot of Berlin.

"Each of the nine divisions of the 3rd shock army, which took the Berlin Center, issued a nominal flag with an individual number on the holder.

The command decided: the Division, which will first break through to the Reichstag and capture it, will be honored to establish the Victory flag," From the Armed Forces, Alexei Prokopovich Brest was demobilized only in 1948, dismissing himself from the post of deputy chief from the political part of the Transmitting Radio Center of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. He worked as a foreman in a steel shop.

In 1953, working as the head of the regional department of cinema, was accused of losses of 5. 5 thousand rubles and sentenced to prison for 10 years. Amnesty has been reduced twice. Returning home from the Perm camps, Alexei Berest worked at the Rosselmash plant in a steel shop by a simple worker. In 1970, Alexei Brest tragically died when he rescued a five-year-old girl from the wheel of the Moscow-Baku fast train.

There are several versions why the Ukrainian Brest did not give the Hero of the Soviet Union. The first, and is confirmed by witnesses, shows that Marshal Georgy Zhukov personally crossed Brest from the submission to the assignment of this highest title in the USSR. The Marshal's allegedly did not argue that the birchist. It should be said that in the Red Army, by the way, in the Wehrmacht, political workers were disliked. But Brest was not a personnel partner.

The second version suggests that Joseph Stalin disliked Ukrainians and wanted to see among those who put the flag over the Reichstag, only Russians and Georgians. According to the third version, Alexei Berest engaged in a census of carpets, paintings, statues and other values that were at the Himmler House and were then sent to the museum, and during the distribution of the trophy watches, "shot" an unfamiliar officer who seemed to be an officer.

"Sincer" (abbreviation from "Death of Spies!") - The name of a number of independent counterintelligence organizations in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Recall that Finland will make a movie about "White Death". Simo Hyyuukha was the Hero of the Soviet-Finnish War and eliminated more than 500 Soviet soldiers in 98 days, which made him the most successful sniper in history. And in March 2025, the last battle pilot for Britain died. John Paddy was 105 years old.