Sergey, are you saying that looting couldn't have happened because it was against the rules while at the same time accusing someone else of being brainwashed?Īlso, the matter of whether or not they looted isn't political at this point, it's historical. Unless you can prove me, that lets say 50,000 Bretons were killed by French Parliament and buried and a shallow mass grave somewhere in Loire Valley in 1979. Regarding "European Socialism", it was a sarcasm.
There is nothing wrong to reminisce about the Empire of Evil, its not propaganda its the truth, so people don't forget, because some people in Russia already forgot, and look whats happening in Ukrane now. President himself talks about greatness of USSR.
Military Parades and speeches about Empire are back. While Germany and Japan publicly acknowledged and apologized and even in some cases compensated$ for their mistakes in history, Soviets never did. If Nazi is 10, USSR is 9.5 on Evil scale.īut the scary part this this picture is still relevant. This picture represents death and horror for millions of Eastern Europeans. This picture is not much different form picture of Nazi solders parading thru France. So please don't you dare to compare so called "Socialist" France and GB to Socialist USSR and its slave countries. My family certainly did not and we were lucky to survive unlike millions that didn't make it. If you think people in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Caucasus, North Korea, many in China, Cuba, just to name a few, if you think those people had fun with Communists, think again. If you think that Communist have been spreading to China, Korea, Vietnam, Africa, Cuba just for fun you are mistaken. And if that not enough you can simply read what it says below the hammer, it says, "Bolsheviks of all countries in the world unite". If you read Carl Marks you would find that communism will only work under one condition, it has to start simultaneously all over the earth. I hope you know that Hammer and Sickle and the Earth on the back ground is not just a cute picture, its actually a modo. The UK’s Amateur Photographer magazine has published an interesting account of how the image was taken. Yevgeny Khaldei, pictured after the war with his Leica III, which goes under the hammer in Hong Kong later this year.Īccording to the modern-day TASS news agency, ITAR-TASS, Khaldei gifted the camera to the organizer of a major exhibition of his works in New York’s Jewish Museum in July 1995, although it is uncertain that the museum is behind the sale.
#LEICA LUFTWAFFE SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER#
The camera, bearing the serial number 257492 is accompanied by an Elmar f/3.5 50mm lens with the serial number 471366 and is set to be auctioned on 30th November. Khaldei, who staged his photograph a couple of days after the event, is reported to have hoped that the image would have the same impact as Joe Rosenthal’s famous photograph ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima’. Photographer Yevgeni Khaldei, who worked for the Soviet news agency TASS, shot the image of Russian soldiers waving the Hammer and Sickle flag from the top of the Reichstag using a Leica III, sometime after the building had been captured. The camera used to take an iconic image that came to symbolize the Russian victory over Nazi Germany is to go on sale at an auction in Hong Kong. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei, courtesy of Bonhams Soviet troops raise a homemade flag over the Reichstag in Berlin. The Lecia III used by Yevgeni Khaldei to take Raising a Flag Over The Reichstag is to go on sale in Hong Kong this November with a guide price of $390,000-580,000.