Item COLD WAR 28/1 - Transcript of interview with military photographer Yevgeni Khaldei, 1995

Typescript transcript of interview with Yevgeni Khaldei, photographic correspondent with the Red Army, [1941]-1945, relating to the Red Army's advance through the territory formerly occupied by the Germans, 1943-1944; the feelings amongst Red Army soldiers towards German troops and civilians, 1944-1945; the battle for Berlin, Germany, 16 Apr-2 May 1945; the photograph, taken by Khaldei, of Red Army troops raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag building, Berlin, 1 May 1945; the supply of food by the Red Army to the German civilian population, 1945; rapes committed by Red Army soldiers on German civilians, 1945; the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, between the leaders of the USSR, USA and UK to decide the future boundaries of East European states, Potsdam, Germany, 17 Jul-2 Aug 1945; the character and leadership of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1945; the devastation in the formerly German occupied areas of the USSR, 1945-1946; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953; the death of Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. (2 versions) 24pp