Remember the Reichstag fire? It was perhaps the seminal event that sealed Germany’s fate as a socialist dictatorship before the Allies were finally able to pry that nation out of the jaws of Nazism in ...

Yevgeni Khaldei,Raising the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag, 1945. Gelatin silver print, 8 1/8 x 11 3/8 inches, 20.6 x 28.9 cm. Signed. Russian photojournalist and war photographer. Originally a ...

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Russian military officials say the last surviving Soviet Red Army veteran of World War II who took part in the storming of the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945 has died at the age of 93 in St. Petersburg.

Russia's defense minister says a replica of the German Reichstag will be built at a military-theme park outside Moscow so that young cadets can emulate their Red Army forebears who seized the iconic ...

In the run-up to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Belarusian news agency BelTA together with the 7 Days newspaper launched a large-scale project. During the year we ...

FILE - A view taken from a Cub artillery observation plane on July 10, 1945, shows vast areas of destruction in Berlin, after repeated Anglo-American air raids on the German capital. Seen on the left, ...

Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is photographer Yevgeny Khaldei’s most iconic image. Khaldei served as a Red Army naval officer and wartime photographer. Of the work he said “This is what I was ...