Victory Banner
On 22 April 1945, the Battalion reached Berlin. On 30 April at noon, Neustroev's men stormed the Reichstag, breaking through the main entrance and clearing the building. The following day, roughly at 03:00, his deputy for political affairs, Lieutenant Alexei Berest, together with two scouts - Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria - raised the Victory Banner atop the Reichstag, next to Wilhelm I's statue.