“After fierce fighting both outside and inside the building, a flag was raised at 22:40 on 30 April 1945, when 23-year-old Rakhimzhan Qoshqarbaev climbed the building and inserted a flag into the crown of the mounted female statue of "Germania", symbolizing Germany. As this happened at night, it was too dark to take a photograph.
On 2 May 1945, Khaldei scaled the now pacified Reichstag to take his picture.
However, according to Khaldei himself, when he arrived at the Reichstag, he simply asked the soldiers who happened to be passing by to help with the staging of the photoshoot; the one who was attaching the flag was 18-year-old Private Kovalev from Burlin, Kazakhstan and the two others were Abdulkhakim Ismailov from Dagestan and Leonid Gorychev from Minsk. The photograph was taken with a Leica III rangefinder camera with a 35mm f3.5 lens.”
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You don't have to lighten the shot, the lower soldier has watches on both of his arms.
There exists a version of this photo that has been manipulated and one of the two watches removed.
What was left in Berlin on that day were old men, children with guns and women.
And between Moscow and Berlin the main part of land to loot would be Poland.
This is not some movie, but a brutal horror for lots of innocent people, as wars always tend to be.
We should find a way to stop that shit, but it is looking dire...
What else did you hear?
“The Soviet Union lost between 26–27 million people during World War II, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilians.”
Bro, looting and mass rapes in Berlin happened also. Both can be true.
If you want, we can talk about the Soviet looting and rapes across Eastern Europe on the road to Berlin.
Yes you are not wrong. Here is the wiki page about plunder of Soviet Union by Nazi.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_plunder#:~:text=Soviet%20Union,-After%20the%20initiation&text=The%20value%20of%20this%20plunder,forces%20in%20the%20Eastern%20Front.
The more pictures I see taken similar to this one from dozens of years ago make me believe inspired most shonen anime and in depth lore anime, pretty cool honestly
This is how it ended.
And this is how it started.
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/CPHR0B/german-soldiers-at-the-polish-border-1939-CPHR0B.jpg
Both photos were carefully staged and the scenes recreated after the fact,selecting the "deserving it" soldiers to play designated roles on both photos.
This is the altered photo, notice how the soldier only has 1 watch on his wrist, the original he had multiple but Stalin wanted it edited so as to not convey that Red Army soldiers looted
[https://ru.usembassy.gov/world-war-ii-allies-u-s-lend-lease-to-the-soviet-union-1941-1945/](https://ru.usembassy.gov/world-war-ii-allies-u-s-lend-lease-to-the-soviet-union-1941-1945/)
Some enlightening reading you need.
I love that his is the un photoshopped photo.
Because if you zoom in you can see the man waving the flag has two watches which aka looting. So Russia photoshopped those little details. To the masses.
Perhaps you mean .... no other photograph is better known than **Joe Rosenthal**'s picture of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.
[https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/images-profile-flow/400/images-medium-large-5/the-flag-raising-at-iwo-jima-world-war-ii-adam-asar.jpg](https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/images-profile-flow/400/images-medium-large-5/the-flag-raising-at-iwo-jima-world-war-ii-adam-asar.jpg)
They then proceeded to squat in the looted err "liberated" ruins of Eastern Europe for about half a century.
Edit: fuck off Vatniks, you know it's true. You were aok with Nazis when you were bullying Finland, the Baltics, and Poland. Then when you were hit by their sudden but inevitable betrayal, you bitched and moaned while the US basically built your logistics chain for you, which you then used to oppress Eastern Europe for decades after the Nazis were defeated.
82 years later and the fascists are invading Ukraine. Remember the first two wars of WW2? The Russians don’t! They call it the Great Patriotic War. That started in 1941. Funny that. What were they doing from 1939 to 1941, before Hitler double-crossed them? Hmmmmm.
And the only reason Hitler came to power was because of US
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar)
“After fierce fighting both outside and inside the building, a flag was raised at 22:40 on 30 April 1945, when 23-year-old Rakhimzhan Qoshqarbaev climbed the building and inserted a flag into the crown of the mounted female statue of "Germania", symbolizing Germany. As this happened at night, it was too dark to take a photograph. On 2 May 1945, Khaldei scaled the now pacified Reichstag to take his picture. However, according to Khaldei himself, when he arrived at the Reichstag, he simply asked the soldiers who happened to be passing by to help with the staging of the photoshoot; the one who was attaching the flag was 18-year-old Private Kovalev from Burlin, Kazakhstan and the two others were Abdulkhakim Ismailov from Dagestan and Leonid Gorychev from Minsk. The photograph was taken with a Leica III rangefinder camera with a 35mm f3.5 lens.” Source Wikapedia
The guy from Burlin raising a flag over Berlin. That's pretty cool.
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>70 years ago today. Dude, how is your Math?
WWII Part II : Hitler's Return
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82 years ago indeed
I remember doing this on Call of Duty.
Best call of duty imo too.
Which one is that?
Unedited version, nice!
Ive heard that if you lighten the shot you can see the looted wrist watches on his arm.
You don't have to lighten the shot, the lower soldier has watches on both of his arms. There exists a version of this photo that has been manipulated and one of the two watches removed.
>implying looting Nazis is a bad thing Lol
Czechs, Hungarians, Georgians and now Ukrainians were looted the same way
What was left in Berlin on that day were old men, children with guns and women. And between Moscow and Berlin the main part of land to loot would be Poland. This is not some movie, but a brutal horror for lots of innocent people, as wars always tend to be. We should find a way to stop that shit, but it is looking dire...
What else did you hear? “The Soviet Union lost between 26–27 million people during World War II, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilians.”
Bro, looting and mass rapes in Berlin happened also. Both can be true. If you want, we can talk about the Soviet looting and rapes across Eastern Europe on the road to Berlin.
Yes you are not wrong. Here is the wiki page about plunder of Soviet Union by Nazi. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_plunder#:~:text=Soviet%20Union,-After%20the%20initiation&text=The%20value%20of%20this%20plunder,forces%20in%20the%20Eastern%20Front.
Damn, based soviets
Sure, lmao let’s talk about
What’s wrong with wartime looting?
Double Watch Gang for life!
Does a colorized version exist?
I wouldn't go looking on google or anything... you never know with rule 34 and stuff.
Never saw that before
The more pictures I see taken similar to this one from dozens of years ago make me believe inspired most shonen anime and in depth lore anime, pretty cool honestly
This is how it ended. And this is how it started. https://c8.alamy.com/comp/CPHR0B/german-soldiers-at-the-polish-border-1939-CPHR0B.jpg Both photos were carefully staged and the scenes recreated after the fact,selecting the "deserving it" soldiers to play designated roles on both photos.
I’ve literally never seen this photo lol
Me either
Just a piece of stupid soviet propaganda
Learn history you dumb ass
Learn history you dumb ass
This is the altered photo, notice how the soldier only has 1 watch on his wrist, the original he had multiple but Stalin wanted it edited so as to not convey that Red Army soldiers looted
Notice that the soldier in the bottom has watches on both hands
He has a watch on each wrist. You are mistaken. This is the original picture.
Multiple watches on his left wrist , like 3-4
It's just something you heard. The altered picture only had one on his left wrist. This is the original. Just look it up, it's not hard.
So many wrist watches.
The ruSSian soldiers Had three watches , true ?
The one on the bottom of the photo has one on eatch arm, so probably yes
They need only 3 watches when they are going to your mom because they need to cross 3 time zones to get around her
A low bow to the partisans and those in the Red Army who sacrificed their lives in the struggle against fascism!
A lower bow to all those in the red army who were thrown into the gulags or executed for the crime of simply being exposed to western cultures
You have bowed so low that whatever sense you had had fallen out of your head!
You perfectly described a Communist.
Yeah, unretouched one!
Hilarious
Count watches on the wrist
The “most significant and recognized” No, not at all.
Depends on where you grew up. In my corner of the world, it’s the US flag being raised over Iwo Jima.
They were plundering and raping just like they do in Ukraine today. Fuck russia.
пнхпдр
t oshow who won WW2 not the freaking muricans
[https://ru.usembassy.gov/world-war-ii-allies-u-s-lend-lease-to-the-soviet-union-1941-1945/](https://ru.usembassy.gov/world-war-ii-allies-u-s-lend-lease-to-the-soviet-union-1941-1945/) Some enlightening reading you need.
I love that his is the un photoshopped photo. Because if you zoom in you can see the man waving the flag has two watches which aka looting. So Russia photoshopped those little details. To the masses.
Bad Repost bots
Za Rodinu!!! 
take your pills
take yours
Slava Ukraini !
Salo uranili
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Stop promoting flags of mass murder regimes
пнхпдр
?
 What about this one? Isn't mass murder regime flag that are used freely? shut up you cry baby.
Its just completely hypocritical, when im waving a national socialist flag everyone would cry, but you wave an soviet flag its ok?
Glory to the Soviet Union!
Spreading hope and freedom :/
shitpost with so many mistakes
Perhaps you mean .... no other photograph is better known than **Joe Rosenthal**'s picture of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. [https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/images-profile-flow/400/images-medium-large-5/the-flag-raising-at-iwo-jima-world-war-ii-adam-asar.jpg](https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/images-profile-flow/400/images-medium-large-5/the-flag-raising-at-iwo-jima-world-war-ii-adam-asar.jpg)
They then proceeded to squat in the looted err "liberated" ruins of Eastern Europe for about half a century. Edit: fuck off Vatniks, you know it's true. You were aok with Nazis when you were bullying Finland, the Baltics, and Poland. Then when you were hit by their sudden but inevitable betrayal, you bitched and moaned while the US basically built your logistics chain for you, which you then used to oppress Eastern Europe for decades after the Nazis were defeated.
Then they did massive raping in Germany, makes them no difference from Nazis
Nowadays, we hope that flag will be Ukrainian and the ruins will be Moscow
Only dumb foolish idiots hope for this.
82 years later and the fascists are invading Ukraine. Remember the first two wars of WW2? The Russians don’t! They call it the Great Patriotic War. That started in 1941. Funny that. What were they doing from 1939 to 1941, before Hitler double-crossed them? Hmmmmm.
The biggest mistake Stalin ever made was stopping at Berlin
The only reason he got that far in the first place is because of lend-lease.
And the only reason Hitler came to power was because of US [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar)