The Photo Facebook Doesn’t Want You to See

Colorized image of a Red Army soldier flying the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building in Berlin, 1945

On May 2, 1945, Nazi Germany surrendered to the USSR’s Red Army after a bloody and epic clash now known as the Battle of Berlin. Not only did the Soviet Union face the Nazi hordes single-handedly in this final struggle, but it also lost approximately 26 million citizens throughout World War II. However, this unimaginable sacrifice was not in vain; the vast majority of Nazi deaths during the war took place at the…