Red Army soldier who helped raise Russian flag over Hitler's Reichstag dies

A Red Army soldier who appeared in an iconic photograph of a Soviet flag flying from the ruins of Hitler’s Reichstag has died, aged 93.

Abdulkhakim Ismailov had fought all the way to Berlin from the Battle of Stalingrad three years earlier, where the destruction of the German Sixth Army turned the tide against the Nazi regime in the Second World War.

But he was only recognised half a century later as one of three soldiers raising the Hammer and Sickle flag in a picture that was staged by the Tass photographer Yevgeny Khaldei in May 1945, three days after Berlin fell to the Soviet Army.

Red Army soldier who helped raise Russian flag over Hitler's Reichstag dies - Times Online

 

Soviet soldier in famous Reichstag photo dies - The Local

 

What a shame, R.I.P

 

:mourn: Russia has lost another GPW veteran. R.I.P Abdulkhakim Ismailov.

 

Земля ему пухом.

 

R.I.P. Abdulkhakim Ismailov. Russia has lost another GPW great.

Земля ему пухом.

 

R.I.P. Abdulkhakim Ismailov

 

Thanks for the link Ray, and may this person who now belongs to history-Rest in Peace. :-(

 

Another one goes...

R.I.P

 

As Iconic as Iwo flag raising or marine with U.Jack walking into Stanley....We struggle to repeat this in todays media x factor age. RIP Ruskie.