Item no. S488 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: Slovakia

Date of issue: 8 May 2015

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Stamp “Day of liberation from fascism” issued to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the end of WW II in Europe. It shows reproduction of Yevgeni Khaldei’s [1917 – 1997] photograph of Soviet Red Army soldiers mounting national flag at the roof of Reichstag building (Third Reich parliament). The photograph was taken after the fall of Berlin in May 1945.