The Heroic War Photographer Punished By Soviet Antisemitism

People And Nature ☭ Written by Simon Pirani.This week, amidst the nauseating hypocrisy of official VE Day celebrations, you may well see the iconic photograph of the Soviet flag being raised above the German parliament building in Berlin.The photo was a posed shot: Yevgeny Khaldei, the photographer who took it, never pretended otherwise. He made the flag himself, from three red