Question by Mr.Clift: Who is the man who planted the Russian flag on the riechstag?
Hes obviously Russian, just wanted to know his name.
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Answer by Vince M
I’d estimate at least a one out of four chance is name was Ivan.
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COOKiE says
As Berlin fell in the closing days of the War, Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei gathered some soldiers and posed a shot of them hoisting the flag (called the Victory Banner) on the roof of the Reichstag building.
nick says
Russian Flag? I think you mean Soviet flag also known as the Red flag. The soldier was Meliton Varlamovich Kantaria, a Georgian, not a Russian.
staisil says
Yevgeny Khaldei, a Soviet war photographer.
West Side™ says
Private Mikhail Petrovich Minin of the Soviet 3rd Army http://greyfalcon.us/restored/CAPTURE%20OF%20THE%…
Brad Davidson says
im afraid that was me