Raising a Flag over the Reichstag (1945) – Yevgeny Khaldei

Toward the end of the ’30s, Adolf Hitler and Russia’s Joseph Stalin reached a ten-year non-aggression pact, but the former leader betrayed the agreement. The countries would go on to fight for years and eventually were in a race to conquer Berlin. In 1945, the Red Army arrived in the country and mounted a flag atop the Reichstag building.

Two days before this happened, Hitler took his own and his wife, Eva Braun’s life. On capturing this historic moment, Ukrainian photographer described it as euphoric. This picture was published in Ogonek, a Russian magazine.