And more than likely that officer was a NKVD or KGB officer who "liberated" the watch from someone else who "liberated" it from a german.
The two soldiers on the 'staged' photo are most likely two scouts from the 756th Rifle Regiment, Michail Alekseyevich Jegorov (a Russian and the one with the two watches) and Meliton Varlamovich Kantariya (a Georgian, like Stalin, with the flag).
This photo was taken the day after the Russians first raised the flag above the Reichstag, the first flag was raised by Mikhail Minin. There is no photo of that.
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