At the beginning of the Second World War, the German Third Reich swept through almost all of Europe, and most of the territory of Europe was occupied by Germany, and in order to force the surrender of Britain, which was struggling with the English Channel, Germany chose to target the Soviet Union, which Hitler called the big house that Hitler called: a big house that collapsed with just one kick. And no one could have imagined that the German Third Reich, which was still in full swing at that time, would fall into the abyss of destruction with this action.
The Battle of Berlin, the last large-scale battle carried out during World War II, was a tough battle launched by the Soviet Red Army against Berlin, the capital of the German Third Reich, which was won by the Red Army after it paid 300,000 casualties to capture Berlin, and the destruction of the Third Reich lasted 12 years. In fact, at that time, Germany could be said to have gone, and the Soviet Union only needed to wait for the American and British allies in the west to arrive in Berlin, and then they could attack Berlin with it, and the casualties would be much less. So why did the Soviet Union single-handedly capture Germany, at the cost of 300,000 deaths and injuries.
The first and biggest reason is the political reason, although the Soviet Union won the final victory in the Soviet-German war, but paid a huge price, it is reported that the Soviet Red Army suffered a total of 30 million casualties in the entire Soviet-German battlefield, and more than 10 million Soviet civilians died in this war. In the eyes of Britain, the United States and other countries, the Soviet Union was exhausted in the war, and the end of the war seemed to depend on the Western countries. Taking Berlin on its own could show the strong fighting power of the Soviet army and have more chips at the negotiating table after the war.
On the other hand, because of the Soviet Union's hatred of Germany, imagine the casualties of 30 million soldiers, it is certain that almost every Soviet soldier has lost his relatives and brought many broken families to the Soviet Union, but with this hatred, the Soviet Union must also take the capital of Berlin itself. Personally capturing the capital of Berlin was not only a political imperative, but also a determination of the Soviet Union to take revenge.