Ukrainian Alexei Berest hoists Victory Banner over Reichstag on May 01, 1945
" On 30 April 1945, after long days of street combat in Berlin, the 150th Division attacked the Reichstag. On 1 May, at...
Ukrainian-American Sgt. Michael Strank was 1 of 6 Marines who raised flag on Mt....
" Michael Strank (November 10, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action...
Kiev’s Independence Square (Maidan) as seen by John Steinbeck after WW2, 1947
“We tried to read a little of the plane, and promptly went to sleep. And when we were awakened, we were...
Meeting at the Elbe: Lt. William Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt. Alexander Silvashko (First...
Silvashko went to the front in the Cherkassy Region of Ukraine, where he was born in the village of Kovunovka. He...
John Steinbeck depicts Kiev after WW2
“War is no new thing to Kiev. Starting with
the raids of the savages from Tartary, it has been a place of...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians
Different looks, heartiness
“Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the...
Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and central Kiev were blown up by the Soviet sappers
John Steinbeck was deceived – the fact is that Kiev was blown up by the Soviets on September 24-28, 1941, after...
John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and sarcophagus of Yaroslav...
"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery...
