Comments on: Soviet Era Magazine Covers

By: Antonio Garcia

Antonio Garcia — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:50:57 +0000

I’ve read books depicting Old Red Propaganda.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:09:08 +0000

I was looking for Russian pics and found this post ! wow ! thanks for information and the pictures

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:27:28 +0000

Hi Mark, and thanks for visiting. Yep, the photo was staged – I wrote about it here, last year:

http://www.siberianlight.net/hammer-and-sickle-reichsta/

At 10:40am on 30 April 1945 Mikhail Petrovich Minin scrambled to the top of the ruined Reichstag, and raised the Soviet flag. Unfortunately for him, though, the flag came off the next day during a desperate German counter attack.

So, ever mindful of the benefits of a nice bit of propaganda, two days later on 2 May the Soviets sent two different soldiers and a photographer up to the roof to do it properly.

By: db

db — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:55:38 +0000

… It’s at least got to have been posed. What do you think?

http://glavred.info/archive/2006/05/06/171958-2.html

By: Mark Thomson

Mark Thomson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:35:47 +0000

“glaf”?? Sheesh, could I have been typing any faster? Let’s try “Flag!”

By: Mark Thomson

Mark Thomson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:33:05 +0000

Hi Guys,

I’m new here. I was surfing for Soviet magazine covers, and stumbled across your blog. Great site! As far as the covers go, they’re all cool, but that one with the glaf being hoisted on the Reichstag…it makes you think they had photoshop back then! Look at it…those silhouettes of the guys on the edge, plus the way the sickle emblem just blazes out there. It’s at least got to have been posed. What do you think? (Wasn’t that photo of all the Americans hoisting the flag on Iwo Jima later admitted to be staged?