Friday, 12 June 2020

Bitching Saal.

Olga Shirnina claims the above picture of Yevgeni Khaldei's iconic World War Two photo, 'Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag' was banned from Facebook. The photo was taken during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945 and came to be regarded as one of the most significant images from the war because of the Reichstag's symbolism as the heart of Nazi Germany

Soviet hero Natalya Meklin-Kravtsova was a flight commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment. She had flown an estimated 980 night missions and dropped 147 tons of bombs on enemy-controlled territory by the end of the war

Evgeniya Rudneva was the head navigator of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment, and recieved the posthumous award of Hero of the Soviet Union.  She flew 645 night combat missions before she was shot down on 9 April 1944

Another banned picture shows a Russian soldier raising the Soviet flag over Berlin. Colourist Olga Shirmina  said the photos, bought to life and posted to her 23,000 followers, were removed by Facebook for breaching 'Community Standards'

Commander of the Taman Guards Women's Regiment, Yevdokia Bershanskaya, and navigator, Larissa Rozanova, are pictured together above

Two Nazi soldiers dressed in white are seen outside a dilapidated building in Kharkhiv, Ukraine, in 1943. Olga claims the above photo was removed from Facebook

Soviet sniper, Semyon Nomokonov (1900-1973), smokes on a pipe. He initially marked the number of kills on his smoking pipe, and is credited with 367 in total. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Lenin among other medals

Regiments are pictured after storming the Reichstag on 7 May 1945, the day the German army surrendered in Western Europe, ending more than five years of warfare

A smiling Red Army traffic controller is pictured in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The Red Army was established immediately after the October 1917 Revolution and, beginning in February 1946, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces

Crowds of adoring women and children flock onto a station platform as they greet victorious soldiers returning home from the war



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