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BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Berlin has preserved countless traces of its World War II destruction as chilling reminders of its militaristic past — few are more striking than Red Army graffiti left ...
A Soviet soldier heroically waves the red flag, the hammer and sickle billow above the Reichstag. Yevgeny Khaldei photographed one of the iconic images of the 20th century. But the legendary image ...
From the Red Army in the Reichstag to the Taliban in Afghanistan, 22 examples of graffiti that capture the passions and pain of history.
Thirty years after Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped Berlin's Reichstag building in silver foil, the German capital is paying tribute to the spectacular art event with a light installation.
Fyodor Zhogol was one of the Red Army soldiers to sign the wall of the Reichstag and witness the Banner of Victory being hoisted in the center of Berlin.
Striking through their duly elected Reichstag, the German people hurled at President Paul von Hindenburg last week the most savage rebuke possible, short of revolution. In the Speaker's Chair when ...
BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...
A welter of events to vaunt a 'sacred feat of valour' included re-enactments of the iconic moment when Red Army soldiers planted a hammer-and-sickle flag high on the Reichstag building in the ...