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2025-05-2 Friday 02:15

The first minute of the rest of your life...
Some of my background you'll be able to find

on my home page.
— 2004-01-28 —
I do not attend on a day-by-day basis, as my job does not allow this.
That doesn't imply that I will not stay with things I've started...

And, as Anthere has suggested: "I like you".

Pages started:
Lino Ventura | Marlène Jobert | Ingrid Thulin
Le Passager de la Pluie
Laura DiDio | Lester Hogan | Tom Duff | MEKO®
Preppie murder
Mon Chéri
Nia Künzer (Pictures)
Strange Units
(with redirects FFF | microfortnight | furlongs per fortnight
nanocentury | microcentury | nanoacre | Hubble-barn)

Editor/Contributor:
Karlsruhe | Reykjavík | Humbug Mountain | Heinrich-Hertz-Turm
Madog | Natasha
Operation Entebbe | Yoni Netanyahu
Albert Hofmann ( Pictures)
Vladimir Vissotzki
CeeCee Lyles | Sarah Marple-Cantrell | Jennifer Levin
Birgit Prinz (Pictures)
RAF Church Fenton
isbn.nu | Blind transmission | RealAudio
Sarah Gordon (VfD) | Fridrik Skulason
attoparsec | Gyrator | Kryptos | 12 (number) | Floppy disk | kilobyte

/Playground - /Tools - /TalkArchive - /Coop - /Bits'n'Pieces
 

Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag (Russian: Знамя Победы над Рейхстагом, romanized: Znamya Pobedy nad Reykhstagom, lit. 'Victory Banner over the Reichstag') is an iconic World War II photograph, taken during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945 by Yevgeny Khaldei. The photograph was reprinted in thousands of publications and came to be regarded around the world as one of the most significant and recognizable images of World War II, but, owing to the secrecy of Soviet media, both the identity of photographer and the identities of the men in the picture were often disputed.

The Reichstag was seen as symbolic of, and at the heart of, Nazi Germany. It was arguably the most symbolic target in Berlin. After its capture on 2 May 1945, Khaldei scaled the now pacified Reichstag to take a picture. He was carrying with him a large flag, sewn from three tablecloths for this very purpose, by his uncle. The official story would later be that two hand-picked soldiers, Meliton Kantaria (Georgian) and Mikhail Yegorov (Russian), raised the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, 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; the two others were Abdulkhakim Ismailov from Dagestan and Leonid Gorychev (also mentioned as Aleksei Goryachev) from Minsk.Photograph credit: Yevgeny Khaldei for TASS; restored by Adam Cuerden

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