On April 30, 1944, with the further victory of the Soviet army, the fall of the city of Berlin was inevitable. www.biquge.info Under such circumstances, Nazi Germany's Führer Hitler basically had no way to escape, so he had to choose to commit suicide in the Führer's bunker.

After Hitler's assassination, Weitling, the commander of the Berlin City Defense District, tried to negotiate a conditional surrender to the Soviet Red Army, but did not get permission from the Soviet side, because the Soviet army demanded an unconditional surrender and did not allow Germany to make any conditions.

After several negotiations and struggles, the Nazi German troops stationed in Berlin finally announced their surrender on May 2, 1944, and the Battle of Berlin was completely over, with the Soviet Army annihilating and capturing more than 400,000 German troops and winning the final victory in the Battle of Berlin.

At the same time, the Soviet Red Army in the rest of the directions also achieved good results, the Ukrainian Second Front managed to take Cologne and the Ruhr area ahead of the Anglo-American forces, and the Belarusian Third Front captured Hamburg and Hanover, but not Bremen.

In addition to the German battlefield, the Soviet Red Army also achieved a brilliant victory in the Nordic theater, and the 1st Baltic Front landed on Zealand and Jutland, successfully liberating all of Denmark.

The Finnish Front also invaded Oslo and liberated all of Norway. Since then, three of the five Nordic countries (Norway, Denmark, and Finland) have fallen into the hands of the Soviet Red Army and have been included in the Soviet sphere of influence.

On the evening of May 8, 1945, representatives of Nazi Germany signed an unconditional surrender treaty in the presence of Marshal Zhukov and others. The treaty entered into force at 0:00 on May 9, and since then the war in Europe has largely subsided, Nazi Germany has fallen, and the Soviet-German war has ended.

Beginning on 9 May, Nazi Germany officially disappeared from the map and was replaced by two occupation zones - one was the western part of Lower Saxony occupied by the Anglo-American-French forces, with Bremen as the center, and only 4% of the size of Germany. The remaining 96% of Germany was controlled by the Soviet Red Army, which included all of Germany's large cities and industrial regions except Bremen.

Since the signing of the armistice, contacts and consultations between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies have been held on the distribution of Axis territories, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill preferred that the Soviet Union would withdraw from southeastern France and the area west of the Rhine in Germany, so that France could take back its territories on the Cte Azur and Provence, and that Britain, the United States and France would each have their own occupation zones in Germany.

Stalin, of course, refused to accept such conditions, and the Soviet Red Army had worked so hard to defeat more than 600 divisions of the Nazi German army (more than 85% of the strength of the Nazi German army), and naturally it was necessary to get more rewards.

The Western Allies only wiped out more than 100 divisions, and took advantage of the war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to pick peaches in the back, and after picking peaches, they asked for more from the Soviet Union.

The proposal put forward by the Soviet side was much fairer, only asking the Western Allies to withdraw from the Bremen area of Germany, and the Soviet troops to withdraw from the French Cte Azur and Provence at the same time, and to cede the Alsace-Lorraine region at the same time, in exchange for the Soviet Union's control of the whole of Germany, and at the same time for France to take back all the territory and protect the integrity of the whole country.

France was satisfied with the Soviet Union's terms, but Churchill feared that the Soviet Union would be strengthened by a complete Germany, so he tried to get the Soviet Union to make concessions.

Churchill even put forward a plan to attack the Soviet Union, taking advantage of the fact that the Soviet Union had not gained a firm foothold in Europe, to launch a surprise offensive against the Central and Eastern European regions occupied by the Soviet Union, so as to achieve the goal of snatching food from the mouth of the Soviet Union and bringing the Central and Eastern European countries into the Western camp.

However, at that time, the Soviet Red Army deployed in Europe far exceeded the combined forces of the British and American forces, and the equipment of the Soviet army was not backward, and the tank technology was a generation more advanced than that of the British and Americans.

Churchill was not unaware of these facts, so he did not expect to eliminate the Soviet regime, as long as it could achieve the goal of "liberating Poland", supporting the Polish government-in-exile to come back to power, and "liberating" Czechoslovakia, Hungary and other countries, and moving the Soviet sphere of influence out of Eastern Europe.

When the plan was handed over to the British military's top brass, it was immediately opposed by the British Army Staff Committee, and the British Army Chief Alan Brooke wrote in his diary: "The plan is of course whimsical, and the probability of success is quite unlikely." From now on, Russia will undoubtedly have absolute power in Europe. ”

After hearing about Churchill's plan, US President Roosevelt even said that it was nonsense, thinking that Churchill was joking with him, because the United States did not think that they had the strength to counterattack the Soviet Union.

A few months later, when the Allies held a victory parade in Berlin, Britain and the United States were completely impressed by the Soviet Union's military prowess, gave up their intention to confront the Soviet Union, and secretly congratulated themselves on the concessions they had made.

At the parade ceremony, when the Soviet IS-3 tank and T-54 tank drove past the parade ground, all the Allied generals present felt the strength of the Soviet tank, which was already in the world's first-class position in terms of armor, protection and mobility, and was even a generation more advanced than the tanks of the same period in Britain and the United States.

Immediately afterwards, the La-9 and MiG-9 fighters flying in the sky (unlike history, this MiG-9 uses the Uleka AL-1 centrifugal jet engine independently developed by the Soviet Union) was an eye-opener for the leaders of the Central Powers, and the aircraft technology they showed was not much behind the Allies, and even surpassed.

The strength of the Soviet Red Army really convinced the British and the Americans, causing them to abandon their plans to start a war against the Soviet Union and to make concessions to the Soviet Union on the issue of the distribution of territory among the Axis powers.

Eventually, the Soviet Union got its wish by bringing all of Germany, as well as Norway, Denmark, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and other countries into its sphere of influence, and established the pro-Soviet Italian Socialist Republic in northern Italy (north of Rome).

In addition, the Soviet Union received Bessarabia from Romania, Carpathian-Ruthenia from Hungary, East Prussia from Germany, and Western Ukraine, Western Belarus, and Eastern Lithuania from Poland.

However, Poland was also a member of the Central Powers, and the Soviet Union was to take territory from Poland at the same time as it had to reparate Poland with the territories of Pomerania, West Prussia, Posen, and Silesia from Germany.

Since then, Germany and Poland have been bordered by the Oder-Neisse line, which has given Poland about 110,000 square kilometers of resource-rich and well-developed German territory, and the Soviet Union has been able to recover from Poland the regions of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, which Poland had invaded from Kievan Rus' many years earlier.