“In 1945, thousands of our soldiers strove for the Reichstag building in order to put an end to the bloody war,” Leonid said when the crew of the project # ABC Victory ended up in Berlin.
Leonid Aleksandrovich, a local historian from the Ukrainian city of Nikopol, was able to identify more than 200 authors of inscriptions inscribed on the walls of the Reichstag in the spring of 1945 from photographs and data from the military archives. However, he himself was never in Berlin.
#Abstract of Victory traveled with Leonid Alexandrovich to the iconic places of the final stage of the Great Patriotic War. Together with young artists and graffiti artists, he visited Brest, Warsaw and Majdanek, leaving messages of peace everywhere, and finally came to Berlin.
Here Karin Felix is waiting for him. A former guide and employee of the Reichstag, Karin studied the inscriptions inside the German parliament for a long time and, based on her work, wrote the book “When History Comes to Life”. What will be the meeting of these two researchers? Will the story divide them?
Project RT #Pobedy Victory talks about the Great Patriotic War through new media and digital art. Join us on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, VKontakte and follow the hourly chronicle of the last days of the war on Twitter.