Screenshots show Facebook's automated warning after RT employees tried posting the photo, taken by Yevgeny Khaldei and colorized by Olga Shirnina (aka Klimbim).
RT: Freak V-Day glitch? Facebook engine CENSORS iconic photo with Soviet flag raised over Reichstag (PHOTOS)
Social media feeds are filled with historic shots marking Victory Day, but Facebook seems to have taken issue with one that symbolizes the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, and it keeps deleting a recently-colorized version of it.
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. It universally appears in literature, documentaries and, indeed, in social media posts. RT has even reenacted the iconic moment as part of its V-Day project.
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WNU Editor: The above photo is to Russians what the U.S. flag over Iwo Jima is to Americans (see below).
2 comments:
Facebook really knows how to step in it.
Is not the soviet photo doctored ?
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