Commemoration
1,100,000 Soviet personnel who took part in the capture of Berlin from 22 April to 2 May 1945 were awarded with the Medal For the Capture of Berlin.
The Victory Banner to be used for celebrations of the Soviet Victory Day was defined by a federal law of Russia, on May 7, 2007, as a copy of the flag was raised on the Reichstag (with the hammer and sickle, and the inscription). This flag is not the first to be hoisted on the Reichstag, but is the first (and the only surviving) of the 'official' flags, explicitly prepared for that purpose, to be raised there.
Poland's official Flag Day is held each year on May 2, the last day of the battle in Berlin, when the Polish Army hoisted its flag on the Berlin Victory Column.
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