Ukrainian Alexei Berest hoists Victory Banner over Reichstag on May 01, 1945

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" On 30 April 1945, after long days of street combat in Berlin, the 150th Division attacked the Reichstag. On 1 May, at...

Ukrainian-American Sgt. Michael Strank was 1 of 6 Marines who raised flag on Mt....

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" Michael Strank (November 10, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action...

Kyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan) as seen by John Steinbeck after WW2, 1946

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“We tried to read a little of the plane, and promptly went to sleep. And when we were awakened, we were...

Meeting at the Elbe: Lt. William Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt. Alexander Silvashko (First...

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Silvashko went to the front in the Cherkassy Region of Ukraine, where he was born in the village of Kovunovka. He...

John Steinbeck depicts Kyiv after WW2

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“War is no new thing to Kiev. Starting with the raids of the savages from Tartary, it has been a place of...

John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians

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Different looks, heartiness “Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the...

Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and central Kyiv were blown up by the Soviet sappers

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John Steinbeck was deceived – the fact is that Kiev was blown up by the Soviets on September 24-28, 1941, after...

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