02-12-2010, 09:00 PM
Got this awhile back. Translated by Monsur Pavlo
[trans: ripped portion, missing] We won! Germany is fully crushed!
THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941-1945
Certificate to a Participant of the Capture of Berlin
(April –May 1945)
45 Guards Gulshanskaya Red Banner Tank Brigade, Guards Junior Lieutenant Smelyakov, Semyon Mikhailovich(?)
You fulfilled your duty to the Motherland in the Patriotic War until the end, glorifying the Russian force on the fields of great battles with the German occupiers, forever glorifying the Stalin Guard.
The 1 Guards Tank Army Military Council notes your heroic participation in the historic battle for Berlin, the capital of German imperialism, and congratulates you with victory.
Commander, 1 Guards Tank Army (GTA) Member Military Council 1 GTA
Guards General-Colonel Guards General-Lieutenant of Tank Forces
M. Katukov N. Popel
Berlin, 9 May 1945
[trans: ripped portion, missing] We won! Germany is fully crushed!
THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941-1945
Certificate to a Participant of the Capture of Berlin
(April –May 1945)
45 Guards Gulshanskaya Red Banner Tank Brigade, Guards Junior Lieutenant Smelyakov, Semyon Mikhailovich(?)
You fulfilled your duty to the Motherland in the Patriotic War until the end, glorifying the Russian force on the fields of great battles with the German occupiers, forever glorifying the Stalin Guard.
The 1 Guards Tank Army Military Council notes your heroic participation in the historic battle for Berlin, the capital of German imperialism, and congratulates you with victory.
Commander, 1 Guards Tank Army (GTA) Member Military Council 1 GTA
Guards General-Colonel Guards General-Lieutenant of Tank Forces
M. Katukov N. Popel
Berlin, 9 May 1945
