Product Description
2015 Tournament Objective - Raising the Red Banner(XX533)
1x Raising the Red Banner Objective Marker
The Reichstag building was considered one of the Red Army’s major objectives in the battle for Berlin. This was largely due to the building’s perceived symbolic significance, despite the fact that it had not been used as a seat of government since the infamous Reichstag Fire 12 years earlier.
Stalin had given orders for the building to be captured and a red banner symbolically raised above it by 1 May to commemorate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a very important Communist holiday. Nine official banners were distributed amongst the nine assault regiments in the city for this purpose. Numerous attempts were made to put a flag atop the Reichstag in time to make Stalin’s deadline.
15mm
Product supplies unassembled and unpainted.
