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Khaldei's most famous photo was of a Red Army soldier raising a Soviet flag above the German Reichstag at the end of World War II: the historic defeat of Nazi Germany in a war that cost the Soviet Union twenty million lives; the magazine Ogoniok published the photograph on 13 May 1945. [2]
May 22, 2023 · On May 2, 1945, Soviet photographer Yevgeny Khaldei snapped the now iconic World War II photo. Learn its history on WATM.
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Mar 12, 2014 · Khaldei, who took inspiration from Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph at Iwo Jima, brought his own flag to Berlin, shot thirty-six versions of the picture, and later admitted to manipulating some...
Apr 30, 2020 · Beating the Western Allies to Berlin was one of Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s ultimate goals, both for propaganda value and to glean Germany’s advanced atomic research. Khaldei had already seen a remarkable photograph of US marines raising the Stars and Stripes on the island of Iwo Jima a few months.
Behind the image itself is the remarkable career of a photographer. Relatively unknown in the West, Khaldei was said to have received a commission in the Red Army immediately following the Nazi invasion of his country on June 22, 1941.
Mar 18, 2014 · Khaldei, who took inspiration from Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph at Iwo Jima, brought his own flag to Berlin, shot thirty-six versions of the picture, and later admitted to manipulating some parts of the image—he added dark clouds of smoke, and erased a watch from a soldier’s wrist.
Mostly known in the Western world for his photograph of soldiers planting a flag of the U.S.S.R. on top of the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945, photographer Evgenii Khaldei documented nearly every single day of the battle between Germany and Russia during World War II.
