This book completes the 5-volume history of the Great Patriotic War from Vladimir Beshanov. This is the result of 10 years of work to rethink the Soviet past, a decisive revision of military myths inherited from Stalin’s agitprop, and an uncompromising polemic with historical officialdom. This is the bitter truth about the bloody year of 1945, which was not only the year of Victory, but also of TROUBLE - it’s not for nothing that many events of the last months of the war are still passed over in silence, the archives have never been fully declassified, and the most bitter, “inconvenient” and painful Questions to this day remain unanswered: When did the Great Patriotic War actually end? Why was Berlin not captured in February 1945 and had to be stormed in April? Who really took the Reichstag and raised the Victory Banner? Are the huge losses of Soviet tanks thrown into the bloody chaos of street battles justified, and is it true that more than one tank army burned in Berlin? Who was liberated by Soviet troops in Europe and how? What is the true price of Victory? And who really won the Second World War?