The Soviet version of the flag raising at Iwo Jima. Like Iwo Jima this photo was staged, the initial flag raising happened the night before around midnight.
Edit from NJC:
My Georgian friend Tamara says:
This picture is not the authentic one:) You can see the real one depicting the Soviets raising the flag here - as you can see, there are only two persons present there- Russian Yegorov- the one who holds the man raising the flag- and my fellow Georgian Meliton Kantaria- the man actually raising the flag. So, yes, the guy who put the flag on the Reighstag symbolizing the defeat of Nazi Germany was Georgian. Even more- he was from the same small town my family is originally from- Ochamchira:) And every May 9 (the Soviet Victory Day), he was always featured in the local newspaper. Kinda our very beloved hero:)
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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Soviet troops signing the Reichstag.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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From Tamara:
"Announcement: leaving the village without accompanying military patrol is prohibited. Violators will be shot"
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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German POW's on display. During the victory parade in Moscow columns like this were marching by nonstop for eight hours.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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Moscow 1535 km and Berlin 165 km. I think the sign in the background is a warning that they are about to enter Germany. Some of these signs read that the hour for revenge was upon us, but i'm not sure what this one says, though the bottom word is Germany.
From Tamara:
"Berlin-Moscow"(That's pretty obvious); the sign below says: "Area for loading (?) the wounded" and the sign in the background says :"Soldier, remember that you are on the territory of Hitler's Germany."
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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The top one is for Hitler, the one in the middle is for Berlin, and the bottom one is for the Reichstag.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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These are the same Katyusha rockets used by Hezbollah against Israel in the Summer 2006 war.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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The Soviet launched 80,000 of these things at Berlin to kick off the Battle of Berlin. Note that those are American trucks that they are being launched from.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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Not sure why these Russians are pointing to Arizona.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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Soviet and American troops in July 1945.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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Soviet troops napping in an American Jeep.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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Der Fuhrer with some of his Generals, Himmler is standing at the far left.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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American girls worked in factories, Russian girls unloaded train loads of logs and then built anti-tank barricades with them.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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As Russians were subhumans the SS would kill kids like these should they come across them. Usually they would not waste bullets on them so they would pick them up by a leg and crack them in the back of the skull with a pistol.
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Posted By: Justin Page 21-Dec-2008
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