Meeting on the Elbe: Kazakh Soldier Among First to Meet with American Allies
AKTOBE – Soviet soldier Aitkali Alibekov made history by taking part in the long-awaited meeting between the Soviet and American troops at Germany’s Elbe River near Torgau on April 25, 1945, reported the Aktobe Vestnik newspaper. This meeting marks a decisive the end of the war. Alibekov went to war in 1944 and fought until…