Extraordinary Images Merge Images Of European City Streets In War And Peace

Generations: Tourists flock to the Reichstag in Berlin, where Russia's Marshal Zhukov stood in 1945

Russian Troops Storm The Reichstag: Extraordinary Images Merge Images Of European City Streets In War And Peace -- Daily Mail

Storming the crumbling Reichstag, Soviet troops appear to attack the Berlin landmark as modern day tourists queue to enter the historic building.

But these extraordinary images are the result of merging two pictures taken in the same location over 60 years apart.

Amateur Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov, 42, collected old pictures of five European cities which suffered the heaviest fighting during World War Two.

He spent 12 months painstakingly travelling to Paris, Leningrad (now St Petersburg), Berlin and Prague to re-create the 'today' shots before mixing the pictures together on a computer.

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My Comment: I have visited a few of the sites where these pictures were taken .... this is an awesome piece of work.