The russian region of bavaria and the caisson. The red army is advancing in the east. It occupied prussia , dying silesia, saxony and surrounded berlin , crushing the remnants of the army of the third reich , the formations of the First Ukrainian front were rapidly moving towards the center of germany. Marshal ivan konev and the twelfth group of the Us Army General omar in accordance with the agreements of the leaders of the antihitler coalition soviet and american troops were to meet at the turn of the elbe river, victor pobeda american troops, with a blow from east and west , settled the rhone of the german wars and on april 25, 13 hours 30 minutes, united in the center of germany near the city of tartau, two armies, american and soviet went. Different paths before the longawaited meeting of the meeting took place. The spirit of such a Real Alliance is in itself, despite the fact that the fight against nazism nevertheless rallied the two countries to achieve the main goal of ridding the world of this brown plague. Well, the goal was achieved. The brotherhood of soldiers on the elbe continued for 10 days, there were many meetings and each of them was important in its own way in this film, we will tell you about five meetings. They took place in different cities on different days and even in different years, but all were imbued with the spirit of soldier brotherhood and hope for a long and happy peace. This photograph, taken by a correspondent of the american magazine life, once flew around the front pages of newspapers around the world ; today, not a single publication dedicated to the historic meeting can do without it, soviet and american troops in the photograph are Us Army Junior lieutenant William Roberts and guard lieutenant of the Red Army Alexander selvashka. They were the first representatives of the allied army to shake hands. The first meeting april 25, 1945 germany neighborhood of the city of torgau, selvashka told the morning of april 25, 1945. Released a warm and sunny fragrance. Lilacs. The smell of gunpowder and metal was drowned out by complete silence. We, accustomed to the roar of the rudine. She turned out to be some unnatural, and we suddenly felt that the war was ending unexpectedly on the other side. Elba. The germans showed up. They were dressed in an unfamiliar uniform, which the silva woman had never seen before. Our artillery fired at the enemy. Two warning shots, those whom the soviet soldiers mistook for the germans disappeared, but an hour later they appeared again and hoisted a flag over the bell tower, similar to a mattress in red and white stripes. , then silvashka. I didnt know yet that the flag was raised Us Army Junior lieutenant William Robert he was very cheerful and very daring a daring man, one of his comrades says, well, roberts is a real cowboy, as it turned out later, robertson was on the banks of the elbe, by chance he was the head of the patrol and, on instructions from the command, traveled around the territory to the west, the hotel would be in search of the germans who wanted to surrender to captured, the germans surrendered willingly. The junior lieutenant sent them with an escort to the location of his unit and drove further and further, deviating from the given route, until he left for elvia and saw soviet soldiers on the other side. Robertson recognized them at once by their glittering sun medals, unlike the americans and germans. The russians went into battle without removing their awards. They found a sheet a sheet and a broken pharmacy of paint, they didnt have anything and they didnt make the flag of the americans, e. G. From potassium permanganate, where with some other drugs the red stripes of the american flag. Why are they on the bell tower with this rag, well, the russians didnt recognize the flag and didnt make contact then robertson brought from a nearby prisoner of war camp a soviet officer who understood english and went to the bank of the iz river with him memories, silvashka. I saw a man in a robe. Prisoner of a concentration camp. He shouted hoarsely, comrades. Dont shoot, its the allies, but the allies met in the middle of the destroyed bridge over the elbe whose explosiondamaged spans curved in the shape of the latin letter v never forget the joyful feeling that seized us when we crossed the bridge and met with soviet soldiers. It was an exciting meeting. And we were proud that everyone was there, and the americans and russians were unusually excited, hugged and patted each other on the back. We celebrated this event with either schnapps or cognac, which was russian for each others health. It was a real holiday at the headquarters of the american 69th in honor of the soviet soldiers , a festive dinner was arranged, which dragged on until the morning. With his unauthorized actions, the junior lieutenant jeopardized the agreements that existed between the allies, according to which the red army was not supposed to cross the elbe. And the us army to go beyond the western bank of the tributary. Elbes, rivers, cartoons , the rapprochement of troops was supposed to be carried out in an organized manner so as not to provoke an emergency situation in the form of an unauthorized combat clash. He said that the World History of the war, probably, was not such that there were practically no allies, because the troops did not know each others common operations, they did not identify them. E, no experiments in this regard, e was not lucky, junior lieutenant robertsun did not get under the tribunal stood up for him. The general himself. Amar bradread, the commander forgave the negligent officer. After all, in the end , it was thanks to him that the historical meeting. Which everyone was waiting for in his memoirs, general bradley complained that the american troops came to the elbe 12 days earlier than the red army and were bored waiting for the late russians, but at the same time forgot to tell that the americans were walking through germany and almost did not meet resistance, the germans surrendered seven divisions, and the burgomasters hurried to hand over the keys to the cities, our troops broke through to elvia, with heavy fighting. They are such a war, and even the american historians themselves note there, well, kind of. The sport was dangerous, well sport. We have there the battle is not for life on us, general alexei zhadov, commander of the fifth guards army, in his memoirs, responded to bradleys lamentations in the same way as the americans. They waited for us for 12 days, and we had them for 2 1 2 years 2. 5 years of the red army , waited for the allies to open a second front in europe, and waited until they actually didnt need it, its no coincidence that even the soldiers have such a simple soldiers joke when they opened american preserves. Uh, then they said, well, lets open a second front. She was such a political connotation. Thats why not alexander silvashka, not fighters, his platoon did not recognize the americans. After so many years of waiting, the allies began to seem to our soldiers as mythical characters, almost fabulous. The second meeting april 25, 1945, germany , the neighborhood of the city of riza, it is officially considered that the first meeting is 1530 days on april 25, when lieutenant robertson and e, russian lieutenant, selvashka. They met in the torgau area. Well, in fact, even yes , this was a meeting between a kazeb lieutenant and a russian. Uh, lieutenant headbeard albert tsibu and Grigory Goloborodko were frontline reconnaissance ends rumble, commanded a platoon, and they met a few kilometers from the city of riza in 4 hours. Before meeting with robertsons lion, their meeting was not accidental, it was planned and the expected khtsbu and goloborodko were reconnaissance of the location of the allies on the orders of the ukatsvu command in this matter there was also a personal interest. He considered himself a bit russian. Uh, this is an old German Family that i settled in russia, his ancestors, one of them august, was a very famous playwright. At he had many sons. One of them outflow made several circumnavigations. There, including with a cargo of stern his name on won one of the straits in the region of alaska looking at the soviet soldiers and officers, albert kotsebus thought with enthusiasm that his ancestors served russia as valiantly as these heroic and soviet guys, they said, how good, how valiant you are. Which germans were beaten. We so wanted to meet you. It was truly sincere memories of american elbe veterans, written very emotionally. But the soviet participants in the meeting talked about it with restraint. Its even somewhat dry when they hit you on the shoulder, they say hello. Here you are. So wonderful we met, maybe such fury and emotions were not here, the degree of this emotion happened, where they performed their military feats. Thats where degrees of emotion went off scale by the time of the meeting on the elbe, senior lieutenant. Goloborodko fought for 1,400 days at the front. He left the volunteers in the early days. Survived and retreated the forty first year participated in the stalingrad battle, and passing through the country devastated by the nazis, destroyed cities and burned villages , the lieutenant reached the elbe. On april 25, katsbuk managed to fight for only 72 days, he didnt go to a single serious battle, he didnt even receive a slight wound, and he survived the first shock just on the day of the meeting on the elbe, when the americans crossed over, to the other side, they saw the corpses of german, and civilians , moreover , there were some children after the bombing. And by the way, american aviation itself, most likely, 200 corpses of ordinary civilians, whether it was an artillery shell that flew in, or whether it was the germans who shot it, or whether it was some other tragic accident bomb. Aviation hit, but in general, there were a lot of dead as well. People albert only tsibuna always remembered the dead german girl. She was about six or seven years old in one arm. She kept the doll and the other pencil for many years. Then, to the cebu, he remembered what color that pencil was, maybe blue, like the bright april sky, or green, like spring grass, or brown, like caked blood, russians and americans bared their heads and kotzebue said guys. Lets vow right now to fight all our lives so that children do not die. This is such an amazing feeling, it remained in the memory of absolutely everyone, the hope that the world will be long, while we are alive and while we are here now and while we are experiencing this. We hope that the world was at home on the evening of april 25, 1945. Reports from two meetings, soviet and military personnel on the elbe, arrived at the white house on downing street and the kremlin on april 27, 1945 1999, the radio stations of the World Broadcast an appeal of the three leaders of the countries of the antihitler coalition, in which the meeting on the elbe was called a landmark event that marked the end of the war in europe in moscow in honor of the meeting on the elbe was given. Salute 24 volleys from 324 guns , festive celebrations took place on times square in new york, well, in germany, thousands of soviet and american soldiers and officers fraternized on the banks. Elba. Between the cities of torgau and rice , communication was free and uncontrolled with the command. Although the Us Department of defense nevertheless , she supplied them with her military instructions at the beginning of the fortyfifth year. They left the pamphlet for american officers first of all. And how to behave in case of a meeting with russian troops. Be sure to shake the hand of the russians, but because they love them, this is a sign of hospitality. When, for example, you watch a concert, there are a lot of them , which means there are concert brigades on the russian front. Uh, if you like it, you dont whistle, youre used to whistling in america. No need to reduce, yes, clap your hands. This must be done. Yuri ozerov honest word a real zoo today on first pleasure when you need something, check out the weekly ozone promotion. Choose from different products at great prices magnesium vitamin b6 for 479 rubles. Vitamin d3 for 399 rubles. Pay less macfah pasta at 44. 90 everything we love grows in gardens. Priduria endless orchards millions of trees and thousands of tons of ripe fruit gardens firsthand quality. Starts with a dream. When you need something, check out the weekly ozone promotion. Choose from different products at great prices. Power 1 liter for 499 rubles. Tv behome for 6. 99 rubles. 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This chervonets is more expensive than a million, for friendship, soldiers cannot be bought for any money, the most popular soviet souvenir was pilot stars, and the most Popular American cigarette. Some of our soldiers. We saw them for the first time, we lit it from the side of the filter and were surprised that in america they smoke in their mouths, but american brandy, like russian vodka , was equally liked by everyone in those days, we were drunk around the clock , American Veterans later said, but no, wine from happiness seemed between america and the ussr friendship will be eternal because we are so similar americans they knew what they were talking about, and they subtracted the similarities of our countries into the mentioned instructions issued by the ministry of defense. The soviet union is a huge country, a huge territory. America is also a large country with vast territories. We have blacks in america, there are indians, there are european migrants. They also have the same multinationality, country, we are open. They are also open. We are business. They are also Business Today when you read. As for the differences between the soldiers of the two countries, there were few americans, it was striking that many our fighters were seriously wounded several times during the war, but again, by hook or by crook , they tried to return to the front. Us soldiers with injuries of the same severity were glad to have the opportunity to go home with the manifestation of russian judas and the americans also believed that the soviet soldiers went without helmets american soldiers who never took off their helmets constantly asked why you neglect such a reliable means of protection , our helmets answer this , are good on the defensive, and during the offensive it only interferes, therefore the soviet soldiers got rid of them back in poland, even the americans were surprised to a shine, rubbed, belt buckles and this ironed tunic of the soviet military why fight, were not at the parade, they said, they, in turn, led us to bewilderment, american laxity and lack of discipline were curiosities when ours raised toasts to health. Roosevelt as ruth april 12, he died, but its okay, on the contrary. It was like a closeness. Mm at the level of an ordinary person meeting, third april 27, 1945, germany werdau village. The meeting on the elbe took place in order of rank, first privates and officers, then the commanders of the Corps Division in teams. Front Commander Marshal konev entrusted the organization of receptions for Senior Officers to Major General gleb baklanov, commander of the thirtyfourth guards rifle corps, the general turned into a diplomat, as i understand it. He believed that father well, due to his such nonproletarian origin. Well, knowledge of languages is very good knowledge of protocol moments. Can seriously assist in the organizational to questions related to speech, a filming of a gala dinner hosted on april 27, 1945 in honor of the commander of the fifth corps, Major General clarensumbler, has been preserved. The dinner table was laid in the garden in the menu of borscht with donuts siberian pelmeni, thats how cognac, german wines, the duties of waitresses were performed by san instructors from the medical battalion. Here general cormorants himself is talking with general hoebner. And these are poets, military commander konstantin simonov, there are other journalists at the table , most of them western, to be honest, for the sake of in some cases, these florists behaved somehow like carriages, and then they, uh, hmm, too, probably tried a lot of our vodka at receptions and had to. E them. Uh, how to seat in cars in a friendly way and, uh, spread out, uh, at home. Among the representatives of the western press on the ilba was the famous american photojournalist lee miller, a fashion model , the beloved muse of the artist monray during the war years, miller was a military photojournalist for the fashion magazine vog her report on the meeting on the elbe she called united for victory the First Impressions of this meeting described briefly was a lot of shooting in the air. And i learned from the russians a new way to drink vodka in one gulp. She filmed a lot of soviet soldiers and officers and made friends with many of them. Most of all , she was struck by the attitude of the soviet, military to the local population. The red army supplied the germans with food and provided medical assistance. Soldiers and officers. Behave with the germans. Emphasized politely and benevolently, looting cruelly yelled, but the owner. Employed under the wait houses vtorgau even rent was paid with everything otherwise treated by the germans by the americans. They did not understand why they need the winner of the ceremony and help the vanquished, whether the enemies of miller asked our military the same question. Why are you russian then throw the germans after all the atrocities that they committed on your land. You should only want one place,