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| | Banner of Victory (Soviet Army in Berlin, 1945) |
 | | Yevgeni Khaldei, the Ukranian photographer who has died aged 80, created one of the most celebrated images of the Second World War, that of a soldier raising the Soviet flag above the ruins of the Reichstag on May 2, 1945. |
 | | Khaldei’s lot, as a war journalist, was to produce propaganda, a task eminently suited to his heroic style of photography. |
 | | Here are the main points concerning the flag: Khaldei told the newspaper the flag was made by his uncle, who stitched the hammer, sickle and star on to a red table cloth taken from the TASS office in Moscow. |
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