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The flag of the Soviet Union consisted of a plain red flag with a gold hammer crossed with a gold sickle placed beneath a gold-bordered red star. This symbol is in the upper left canton of the red flag. The colour red honours the red flag of the Paris Commune of 1871; the red star and the hammer and sickle are symbols of communism and socialism.
The Battle of Berlin was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II and was designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union. [A 1] Starting on 16 April 1945, the Red Army breached the German front as a result of the Vistula–Oder offensive and rapidly advanced westward through Germany, as fast as 30–40 kilometres a day.
State flag of the Soviet Union: The first flag of the Soviet Union is a red flag with the state emblem in the center and fimbriated in white. 1923–1924: The second flag of the Soviet Union with the golden fimbriated canton, adopted shortly after the end of the Russian Civil War. 1924–1936: The third flag of the Soviet Union. 1936–1955
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Flags of the Soviet Union; Flags of the Soviet Republics This page was last edited on 16 April 2022, at 07:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Flag of the Soviet Union from 19 August 1955 to 26 December 1991. Naval Jack of the Soviet Union and Russia from 16 November 1950 to 26 July 1992.
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Khaldei's most famous photo was of a Red Army soldier raising a Soviet flag above the German Reichstag at the end of World War II: the historic defeat of Nazi Germany in a war that cost the Soviet Union twenty million lives; the magazine Ogoniok published the photograph on 13 May 1945. [2] Khaldei had shot an entire roll of film, 36 images.