For victory banners in Tibetan tradition, see Dhvaja.
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"Banner of Victory #5" was raised just below a statue on the roof of the Reichstag buildingThe Symbol of Victory Banner (1996–2007) was an alternative to using the historic Victory Banner, until pressure from Red Army veterans caused the original flag to be used again.
Although this flag was not the only one to be hoisted on the Reichstag, it was the first one to be raised and was the only survivor of all the "official" flags specially prepared to be raised there.
According to the Law of the Russian Federation, the Banner of Victory is to be stored forever in a place which provides its safety and public availability.
Origin
The original Victory Banner is saved in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces, Moscow
The origin of the banner comes from the report of the commander of the 3rd assault army to the head of political administration of The Red Army about the fight for Reichstag and placing the Victory Banner on it, dated 2 July 1945:
The Commander of the 1st Byelorussian Front Marshal of Soviet Union comrade Zhukov ordered the troops of the 3rd Shock Army to headily enter Berlin, to secure the downtown and Reichstag and to place the Victory Banner on it. <...>
Having defeated the last enemy strongholds the troops of the army entered Berlin at 6:00 o'clock in the evening on the 21st of April 1945. <...>
After seizing the downtown the troops of the 3rd assault army penetrated the neighborhood of the Reichstag at the end of 29 of April 1945..
On the 30th of April with the sunrise they started the massive assault on the Reichstag. <...>
On the 30th of April 1945 at 14:25 (2:25 pm) the soldiers of Lieutenant Sorokin's group fought their way to the roof and reached the dome. The courageous warriors - ordinary soldier Grigorij Bulatov, Komsomol party organizer Viktor Pravotorov and partyless Senior Sergeant Ivan Lysenko, Stepan Oreshko have erected a banner, the proud flag of the Soviet Union over the German parliamentary building, a symbol of our Great Victory.
The banner hoisted over the Reichstag, burned and shot through with bullets, flew victoriously over a defeated Berlin. <...>
By decree of President Alexander Lukashenko on 6 May 1995, a duplicate of the Victory Banner was issued for duties on 9 May, 23 February and 3 July. The Flag of the USSR also holds an equivalent status.[citation needed] In 2011, Russia presented Belarus with one of the official copies of the Victory Banner, being kept at the Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum.[3]
In the self-proclaimed separatist Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic on Victory Day, the Banner of Victory is utilized during military parades. In 2018, the parliaments of the DPR and LPR adopted laws "On the Banner of Victory", which established the status and legal basis for the use of copies of the Banner of Victory in the republics.[4][5][6]
On 21 October 2009, the self-proclaimed separatist Supreme Council of Transnistria adopted a law on equating the Victory Banner with the Transnistrian Flag.[12] In 2014, at the Memorial of Glory in Tiraspol, an official copy of the Victory Banner was handed over to Transnistria from Russia.
On 9 May 2017, the largest copy of the Victory Banner measuring 60 by 25 meters was deployed on Great National Assembly Square in the Moldovan capital of Chișinău. The banner was sewn at a local factory over a period of two weeks.[20] In 2020, sailors of the Russian Northern Fleet raised the banner over distant parts of the Russian Arctic.[21]
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