Today, eighty years ago, on April 13, 1945 (March 2, 1945), the Soviet Red Army recaptured Vienna. The Soviet Red Army entered Vienna on April 13, 1945, after several days of fierce street battles, Vienna fell into the hands of the Red Army, thousands of German soldiers became prisoners of war, and the Soviets blocked a major railway, from which the Germans largely fled. The Germans carried out deadly resistance in the ancient Jewish district of Leopold City and two commercial districts. The Soviets claimed that German soldiers in extreme despair hysterically climbed their guns against the unprotected old people. A telegram from Moscow described the last German resistance as a ¡°bullish battle of chaos¡±. The Soviets invaded the capital