Of course, I doubt that everything went exactly according to plan while taking Berlin. The "front lines" shifted all of the time and undoubtedly you had Russians shooting at Russians even across streets and alleys. Artillery was used in mass quantities.
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As elements of General Pavel S. Rybalko’s Third Tank Army, attached to Konev’s First Ukrainian Front, moved cautiously through the city, they came under murderous fire from their countrymen to prevent them from reaching the center of town first and planting the red banner atop the Reichstag.
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This is sophistry at it's finest, who can tell who is shooting at whom? What kind of "murderous fire" was it? Artillery, machine guns, rifles, soggy pea slingshots? Fill in the blank I guess, there's not a lot of info here. The fire could have come from anywhere and if it was say artillery fire considering the communications chaos that no doubt prevailed is it not to be expected at times?
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“A squadron of the First Belorussian Army Group began to bomb us. Then everything was on fire – smoke everywhere. That line [demarcation line between Soviet forces] existed on paper, but when there are hundreds of aircraft in the sky when 43,000 artillery pieces have been deployed by both army groups, when there are ten different armies on the same side, all in the same place, then there is a good possibility we will betray each other.”
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How do you tell if you're being bombed a specific group? It's possible but is it really likely? I think the rest of the statement speaks for itself except for the last part. ''Betray" is a word I have never heard used in this context in anything I have ever read or seen. Yeah there were undoubtedly rivalries but I really don't think they stooped to killing one another like gangsters which is what the author seems to be trying to indicate.
I'll mark it down to rubbish.