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In 1983, Blanter became a member of the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public, an organization created by the Soviet Union as an anti-Zionist propaganda tool. He died in Moscow in 1990.
Blanter, the son of a Jewish craftsman, was born in the town of Pochep, then in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire. He studied piano and violin at the Kursk Higher Music School. From 1917 to 1919, he continued his education in Moscow, studying violin and composition.
75 years ago today...German generals negotiate the surrender of Berlin to the Red Army...Posted on 5/1/20 at 1:20 pm, Mere hours after Hitler's suicide in the bunker, German leadership set about to bring the carnage of the Battle of Berlin to an end. The battle had raged for almost two weeks and nearly one million people had been made casualties of war in that span. Lieutenant General Hans Krebs, chief of the OKW, was sent to the headquarters of Colonel-General Vasily Chuikov, commander of the 62nd Army, to negotiate a cease fire in Berlin. Chuikov was caught by surprise and had no time to assemble his staff, so he hastily dressed several Soviet war correspondents in Red Army garb and had them pose as members of his general staff. Another man among the war correspondents was a famous Soviet composer named Matvei Isaakovich Blanter. As it was clear that Chuikov couldn't pass Blanter off for a Red Army officer, he had the unfortunate musician shoved into a wardrobe closet just as Krebs and his staff were arriving at Chuikov's headquarters. The members of Krebs' staff would later remark how strange it was that Chuikov didn't introduce the "officers" who were with him and that they remained silent for the duration of the meeting. The meeting was something out of a dark comedy. Krebs informed Chuikov that Hitler had committed suicide. While Chuikov initially appeared stunned by this news, he quickly regained his composure and claimed that the Red Army was aware of this news. Ignoring this impossibility, Krebs announced that the new administration had authorized him to begin negotiations for the surrender of the city of Berlin and the surrender of Nazi Germany. Chuikov replied that the Red Army could accept no terms but unconditional surrender. While Krebs was doubtful that his superiors would accept such terms, he carried Chuikov's message back to the Fuhrerbunker. As Krebs and his staff were leaving, they were taken by surprise when the unconscious body of Matvei Blanter fell out of the wardrobe closet Chuikov had stuffed him into just minutes before. The poor musician had run out of oxygen and passed out. While questions were no doubt on the minds of Krebs and his fellow officers, they did not stick around to ask Chuikov what the hell had just happened.
The Battle Of Berlin: May 1st 1945 – The Storming Of The Zitadelle ...The remnants of the Berlin Defence Area attempt to break out...Joseph Goebbels commits suicide...General Krebs meets Vasily Chuikov to try to negotiate a ceasefire...Stalin is informed of Hitler’s suicide...the Zoologischer Garten is taken...Spandau Citadel surrenders...Hitler’s death is announced to the world...At around 3:30am on May 1st 1945, German General Hans Krebs met with Vasily Chuikov, head of the Soviet 8th Guards Army, to attempt to negotiate a ceasefire. Krebs also gave Chuikov news of a certain event that had transpired some 12 hours earlier in the Führerbunker – contained in a document signed by Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, was dead. Feigning prior knowledge, Chuikov replied that the Red Army was already aware, before relaying this news to Georgy Zhukov, who contacted Joseph Stalin. The Soviet leader immediately refused the German attempt to arrange a ceasefire – demanding nothing short of unconditional surrender. Stalin would then return to bed and insist on not being disturbed, in order to rest to be prepared for the May Day celebrations in Moscow. The Generalissimo would watch the parade on Red Square, the capital’s garrison filing past, the Soviet leaders gathered at Lenin’s Mausoleum. To celebrate the day that Stalin hoped would coincide with the Soviet victory in Berlin, NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria had even lifted the curfew in the capital – especially for the celebrations. One day before the capitulation of the city of Berlin, fighting continued. But in a strange atmosphere of celebration and exhaustion – as intoxicated Red Army soldiers slumped over against crippled buildings, passed out on pavements and intermingled with the corpses of their fallen comrades. The dust of ruined buildings blowing through the streets, leaving the few remaining defenders – now numbered in the thousands – red eyed from the harsh air and smashed by the waves of defeat. Regular Red Army units carried out coordinated assaults on entrenched defenders but the rigidity of the formations parading in the Russian capital – to celebrate May Day for the first time in four years of the Great Patriotic War – would have little in common with their comrades still slugging it out in Berlin. Or the improvised celebrations taking place across the city for International Workers Day. For the remaining defenders of the Nazi capital – there was little to celebrate on May 1st. The 8th Guards Army headquarters at Schulenburgring on the west side of Tempelhof airport, had already acquired a party-like atmosphere for May Day – which would cease, at least temporarily, for the German negotiations. Chuikov had reportedly been celebrating with the writer Vsevolod Vishnevsky, the poet Dolmatovsky, and the composer Blanter, who was in Berlin to compose a victory song. As the German delegation arrived, Blanter would be pushed into a cupboard and hidden as the remaining pair were left to stand and pretend to be staff officers – wearing the uniforms they had been given as war correspondents. The Soviet demands were made clear to the remaining members of the Berlin government in the Führerbunker when Krebs returned and handed Joseph Goebbels a sheet of paper he had received from Chuikov. It read: Berlin surrenders, All those surrendering must lay down their arms, The lives of all soldiers and officers are to be spared, The wounded will be cared for, There will be an opportunity to negotiate with the Allies by radio.
Matvey Blanter, Matvey Isaakovich Blanter (10 February 1903 - 27 September 1990) was a Soviet composer. Blanter, the son of a Jewish craftsman, was born in the town of Pochep, then in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire. He studied piano and violin at the Kursk Higher Music School. In 1917-1919, he continued his education in Moscow, studying violin and composition. Blanter's first songs were composed in the 1920s. At the time, he wrote light dance and jazz music, including "John Gray" (1923), a foxtrot that became a major hit. In the 1930s, as Soviet culture grew more repressive and ideologically rigid, Blanter shifted toward writing Soviet propaganda songs. Some of Blanter's 1930s songs were styled after the Red Army songs of the Russian Civil War (1918–1921) and mythologized the war's Bolshevik heroes. Near the end of WW2, Blanter accompanied two war correspondents - Konstantin Simonov and Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky - who visited General Vasily Chuikov's Eighth Guards Army during the Battle of Berlin. Blanter was present in the room while the two interviewed Chuikov, but then suddenly General Hans Krebs arrived nearby. Chuikov, who wished to meet Krebs as soon as possible and hear what he had to say, hastily ordered the journalists (who were dressed in uniform) to wear medals and pretend that they're his staff. Blanter, who was in civilian clothes was: “...hastily shoved into a clothes closet adjoining the meeting room. He stayed there for most of the ensuing conference. Just before the visitors left, he fainted from lack of air and fell into the room, to the utter astonishment of the Germans.” ―Cornelius Ryan, The Last Battle The scene was recreated in Downfall. Blanter is played by Russian actor Boris Schwarzmann. According to the director, Oliver Hirschpiegel, he thought the scene where Blanter is shoved in a cupboard wouldn't be taken seriously by people who were watching the film, even though it really happened, which is why he cut it out of the theatrical version. The behind-the-scenes version shows Blanter falling out of the cupboard and, without a word, he is carried out.
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