On September 7, 1945, a joint military parade of units from the USSR, the United States, #UK, and #France was held in #Berlin near the defeated Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate, commemorating the end of #WW2 and the common Victory of the Allies of the Anti-Hitler Coalition over #Nazi #Germany. The site of the parade — at the Brandenburg Gate, in the very heart of the capital of the defeated Reich — was chosen for a reason: it was precisely there that the Battle of Berlin came to an end