Alexei Sokolov

Алексей Соколов

1920 – 2006

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— Yaroslav Gorkovenko

Biography

Captain Alexei Sokolov served with the 150th Rifle Division — the unit that raised the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin on 30 April 1945. He fought from Stalingrad to Berlin, surviving three wounds. He was present at the Reichstag when Sergeants Yegorov and Kantaria raised the Banner of Victory. He emigrated to Manchester in 1998.

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Years

1920 – 2006

Region

Manchester

Rank

Captain

Branch

Soviet Army

Unit

Soviet 150th Rifle Division

Theaters of war

Eastern FrontBattle of StalingradBattle of Berlin

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Submitted by Admin · April 2026

Source: low confidence

Real WWII veterans — British, Commonwealth, Soviet and Allied — held as encyclopaedic summaries: name, rank, unit and a short account of service, in English and Russian. What they lack is provenance, not reality: no cited source, and a photograph on only 10 of 692. Tier LOW (secondary source) records that absence. Added 2026-03-16 to 2026-04-19. On 2026-05-13 all 692 were flagged "formulaic ... functionally placeholder/demo content" and tiered SEED, on a cadence heuristic — one profile per day — without reading the subjects. That reading was wrong. Among them are documented figures including Group Captain Peter Townsend of 85 Squadron RAF, and real actions including the Pegasus Bridge coup de main at 00:16 on 6 June 1944. The characterisation is WITHDRAWN as untrue of real people. Corrected by R0 act, 2026-10-07: tier SEED -> LOW, and custodianship of these records is R0's own. His words: "they are all mine. I am grateful to all of them and each one of them for what they have done for us."