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Soviet soldiers raising a flag over the Reichstag, May 1945 Image: Yevgeny Khaldei Russia, together with its allies and like-minded partners, will continue to counter any attempts to distort the historical truth and memory of World War II. On 9 May 1945, at 00:43 Moscow time, the German Instrument of Surrender was signed in Berlin which ended the Great Patriotic War.
They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. These two pictures spawned a thousand stories and to this day, some 70 years later, they speak in profound reflection to two triumphs and the prices paid. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal and Soviet Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei are two of the most iconic photographs of the Second World War. But their genesis and their evolution in the archive of immortal photographs have taken a long and circuitous route through history.
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