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The raising of the Soviet flag on the Reichstag - captured by photographer Yevgeny Khaldei

The raising of the Soviet flag on the Reichstag - captured by photographer Yevgeny Khaldei
The raising of the Soviet flag on the Reichstag - captured by photographer Yevgeny Khaldei Unattributed Rights reserved Photographer: Yevgeny Khaldei Yevgeny Khaldei, 'Raising a Flag over the Reichstag', 2 May 1945. Khaldei died in 1997, so the term runs to 2067 and the image is NOT free. The Commons candidate matched here — 'Estandarte de la victoria sobre el Reichstag' — is the same photograph re-uploaded by a third party as 'own work', dated 2024, under CC BY-SA 4.0. That uploader had no right to grant that licence, so it must not be relied on. Candidate rejected.
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Unattributed
Credit as published
Yevgeny Khaldei, 1945 — rights reserved
Rights status
rights-reserved
Kind
archival
Photographer
Yevgeny Khaldei

Rights basisYevgeny Khaldei, 'Raising a Flag over the Reichstag', 2 May 1945. Khaldei died in 1997, so the term runs to 2067 and the image is NOT free. The Commons candidate matched here — 'Estandarte de la victoria sobre el Reichstag' — is the same photograph re-uploaded by a third party as 'own work', dated 2024, under CC BY-SA 4.0. That uploader had no right to grant that licence, so it must not be relied on. Candidate rejected.

This image is in copyright. The rights position is known and it is not free to reuse — the basis above sets out why.

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