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World War II: Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is published in Ogonyok magazine.

Historical image related to World War II: Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is published in Ogonyok magazine. from May 13, 1945

Yevgeny Khaldei

Soviet photographer (1917–1997)

Yevgeny Ananyevich Khaldei was a Soviet Red Army naval officer and photographer. He is best known for his World War II photograph of a Soviet soldier raising a flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, the capital of the vanquished Nazi Germany, at the end of the war.
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Raising a Flag over the Reichstag

1945 photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei

Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is a World War II photograph that symbolizes the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during the Battle in Berlin. Taken on 2 May 1945, it shows two Soviet soldiers planting a Soviet flag atop the Reichstag building, which was home to the…
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Ogoniok

Defunct Russian weekly magazine (1899–2020)

Ogoniok was one of the oldest weekly illustrated magazines in Russia.
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May 13

Day of the year

May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 232 days remain until the end of the year.
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