Soviet newsreel News of the Day # 12, May 1945.

Actualités soviétiques Novosti Dnia # 12, mai 1945.
FROM STALINGRAD TO BERLIN. The artillery crew of the howitzer gun No. 4852 (1st Belorussian Front) says goodbye to its gun, which passed from Stalingrad to Berlin. The order of the Military Council of the Front is read out by Guard Major Likhankin. The last shot at Berlin makes the calculation of Senior Sergeant Vasily Ivanovich Plekhanov: Private Loader Lazova Ivan Ivanovich; Kotlyar Vasily Semenovich; Rasputny Sergey Konstantinovich; Sergeant Miroshnikov Leonid Konstantinovich; gunner Raskulov Kenan. The gun will be sent to the Leningrad Artillery Historical Museum of the Red Army.
MEETING ON THE ELBE. April 26, 1945 at 17:00 in the area of ​​the city of Torgau, standing on the Elbe River, the first official meeting of the Allied forces with the Soviet troops took place. From the side of the Americans, the commander of the 69th division, Major General Emile F. Reinhardt, was present with his headquarters. The guests were welcomed - Major General of the 58th Guards Rifle Division of the 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front Vladimir Vasilievich Rusakov with representatives of the headquarters. On April 27, 1945, Major General Clarence Hübner met with Major General Gleb Vladimirovich Baklanov. Representatives of the Red Army gave breakfast in honor of the generals and officers of the 1st American Army, among those invited - war correspondent K. Simonov.
GDANSK IS RETURNED TO POLAND. In April 1945, the President of the Regional Council of the People’s Boleslav Bierut, the Prime Minister Edward Osubka-Moravsky, the representative of the command of the Polish Army, the general of the brigade Boleslav Frantsevich Zaraka-Zarakovsky, accompanied by the representative of the command of the Red Army, Lieutenant General Sergey Savelyevich Shatilov visited the cities of Gdynia returned to the Polish people. Gdansk. In Gdansk, guests talked with local residents, examined the city and the surviving shipyards in the port.
IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA. On April 5, 1945, at the temporary residence of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic, Eduard Benes, in Kosice, the Soviet ambassador Valerian Alexandrovich Zorin presented his credentials. Hero of the Soviet Union captain Tesarzhik commands the guard of honor. Among the representatives of Czechoslovakia: Prime Minister of the Government of Czechoslovakia Zdenek Firlinger, Head of Chancellery Smutny, Head of the Military Chancellery General Spannel, Head of the Political Chancellery Drtina. V.A. Zorin was accompanied by: adviser - Nikolai Yakovlevich Demyanov, 1st secretary - George Evgenievich Chebotarev, 3rd secretary - Grigory Ivanovich Alyabyev.
RELEASED BY THE RED ARMY. Inhabitants of Belgrade meet a train with Yugoslav prisoners of war liberated by the Red Army.
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