Remembering the USSR's Most Iconic WWII Photos

Mar 10, 2017 - 04:00 pm

Soviet soldiers rejoice as Sevastopol is liberated from German occupation, May 9, 1944. Yevgeny Khaldei / TASS

People welcoming Soviet soldiers in Lovech, Bulgaria, Oct. 15, 1944. Yevgeny Khaldei / TASS

The Battle for the Reichstag in Berlin, May 1, 1945. Yevgeny Khaldei / TASS

The red flag of victory is hoisted over the Reichstag in Berlin, May 1, 1945. Yevgeny Khaldei / TASS

Traffic-control officer Maria Shalnova works on the streets of Berlin, May 1, 1945. Yevgeny Khaldei / TASS

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the chief of the General Staff of the German Armed Forces, and Georgy Zhukov, Chief of General Staff of the Red Army, signing the unconditional surrender of the German forces, Berlin, June 1, 1945. Yevgeny Khaldei / TASS

Victory Parade in Moscow, June 24, 1945. Soldiers prepare to throw Nazi flags at the foot of the Mausoleum. Yevgeny Khaldei / TASS

Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Joseph Stalin during the Potsdam Conference, 1945. Yevgeny Khaldei / TASS

Soviet photojournalist Yevgeny Khaldei recorded amazing scenes in the devastating war between Nazi Germany and the USSR. He was with the Soviet Army, when it reached Berlin, where he recorded one of the war's most symbolic images: a Red Army soldier raising a Soviet flag above the German Reichstag.

Khaldei, who died in 1997, was born 100 years ago this month. In honor of his work, The Moscow Times publishes several of his priceless historical photos.

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