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Facebook bans iconic photo with Soviet flag raised over Berlin

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Social media giant Facebook seems to be upset with an iconic photo that symbolises the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, and it keeps deleting a recently-colorised version of it, foreign media reported on Saturday. Taken during the Battle of Berlin on May 2, 1945, Yevgeny Khaldei's 'Raising a Flag over the Reichstag' commonly springs to mind when it comes to the subject of World War II and Victory Day celebrations.