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So what happened to all of those men and women?

Sergei and Natalya Goncharov, 13th Guards Rifle Division:
Moved to Switzerland for a few years where they married, until after Stalin's death, when, with Zhukov, they both assisted in the coup d'etat against Lavrenty Beria. After Zhukov's second fall from grace, they moved to Moscow's suburbs to write their collective memoirs, but failed to find a publisher numerous times due to lack of paperwork. They died within days of each other in 1989, leaving twin girls.

Marshall of the Soviet Union, Grigory Zhukov: *
Suffered a fall from grace after his victory in 1945, but became a good friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and visited America with him. Following Stalin's death in 1953, helped his army colleague Nikita S. Kruschev achieve power, arresting Lavrenty Beria in 1956, but fell out with Kruschev and was forced into early retirement, where he lived out the rest of his years.

Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin: *
History will always give a mixed record of Stalin's achievements. He died in 1953, of officially explained circumstances, though some outlandish conspiracy theories have circulated about Chinese agents being requested to poison him by Emigre Red Army officers.

Head of NKVD secret police, Lavrenty Beria: *
Appeared to be favoured as Stalin's successor in 1953, but during the three year tussle for power, he was arrested by Army officers led by Marshall Zhukov and disappeared without a trace, like many of his victims.

Kapitan Pyotr Fyodorov, 13th Guards Rifle Division:
Continued to serve in the Red Army for years to come, before defecting to the west in 1968, disgusted with the crushing of the Czech Spring. He found a home in Britain, and worked in a food store for the rest of his life, happy to have concluded his army service.

"Scar" and "Lust", or rather Mr. and Mrs. Schuhauner:
Left Germany behind in 1945, and parted ways with Fuery just outside Paris. They went on to live in the town of Ypres where they had spent a great deal of their child-hoods for the remainder of their lives.

Alponse Elric, PhD:
After the dropping of "Fat Man" and "Tall Boy" on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, he left the field of nuclear physics like so many other scientists who had worked on the Manhattan project, dedicating himself to the science of life, working on the development of anti-bacterial medicines with Alexander Fleming. Like Oppenheimer and Einstein, he would remain a key anti-nuclear proliferation proponent until he died in1995, a Grand-father.

Fritz Lang:
Like many other German jews, he travelled to the newly-created state of Israel in 1948, where he made films about the Jewish return to their homeland, while doing his best to argue for better relations with the new state's Arab neighbours.

Noah:
Having learnt to read, she began working at Siemens, fell in love and moved to Munich, but maintained good relations with the Hughes family, passing away a short time after they did, a happy mother. She never did find her fellow Romanies however.

Maes and Gracia Hughes:
Lived through the rough years of the late fourties, and found some kind of peace under the new West Germany. Maes would continue to be a trusted police officer, while Gracia's flower shop would grow in time, with a great deal of steady customers. The NKVD never would find out where they lived, or what happened to the Shamballans, as they were soon occupied with the growing cold war.

Elycia Hughes:
Although her temperament would work against her, she found a place in university in Switzerland, making her life as a doctor. She would later marry and settle down in Berlin, only dying recently in 2002.

The Shamballan incident was struck from history, and no records remain of either the additional Reichstag building, or any survivors thereof. Most of the soldiers who saw the incident were sent for brief re-education, while the NKVD officers who encountered Shamballans were soon too busy with the cold war to relate their memories to anyone.

As for the other Amestrians? Their narrative remains for another to tell, for this story-teller has done his part.