Item no. P1620 (cover)

Type: cover

Country: Moldova

Date of issue: 2005

Cover issued to commemorate 60th anniversary of liberation from fascism. The cachet shows reproduction of Yevgeni KHALDEI’s [1917 – 1997] photograph of Russian 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.