Honoring the soldiers who raised the Soviet flag at the Reichstag in Berlin on 9.5.1945. From left to right: Yegorov, Kantaria, Samsonov. Moscow, Soviet Union, 1965 However, the honors given to the three soldiers were pure propaganda. They were soldiers selected by the Communist Party and Stalin and, of course, the soldier who raised the flag had to be a Georgian just like Stalin. In reality, none of the three were involved in the action. J. Chaldej had to sign a contract that he would never reveal the true identity of the soldiers in the Reichstag. It was only shortly in front of his death in the mid-1990s, i.e. around 40 years after the death of Stalin, that he broke his silence and identified the soldier who was holding the flag
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Honoring the soldiers who raised the Soviet flag at the Reichstag in Berlin on 9.5.1945. From left to right: Yegorov, Kantaria, Samsonov. Moscow, Soviet Union, 1965 However, the honors given to the three soldiers were pure propaganda. They were soldiers selected by the Communist Party and Stalin and, of course, the soldier who raised the flag had to be a Georgian just like Stalin. In reality, none of the three were involved in the action. J. Chaldej had to sign a contract that he would never reveal the true identity of the soldiers in the Reichstag. It was only shortly in front of his death in the mid-1990s, i.e. around 40 years after the death of Stalin, that he broke his silence and identified the soldier who was holding the flag

Date

Aug 31, 1965

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Photo12/ImageBROKER/Jewgeni Chaldej / Sammlung E.Volland & H.Krimmer

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BRK26H14_345

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