📰 TODAY IN HISTORY 📰

On this day 81 years ago, the Soviet Union declared total victory against the Nazi regime, freeing the world from it’s facist ideals.
Though on 30 April, Hitler killed himself, the city’s garrison surrendered on 2 May but fighting continued to the north-west, west, and south-west of the city until the end of the war in Europe on May 9th as some German units fought westward so that they could surrender to the Western Allies rather than to the Soviets.