Red Army cavalry scout Vasily Zhuravlyov is talking to a girl who was hijacked for forced labor in the Nazi Germany, and now returns home to Soviet Russia. The name of the Ostarbeiter girl is Antonina Onishchenko (born in the Kyiv region), when she meets with the cavalry scout she thanks for the liberation from fascist slavery.
Behind of Red Army cavalry is the Soviet ISU-122 self-propelled gun.
Sources of information about the photo:
1. photo.rgakfd.ru
2. The newspaper Izvestia No. 098 of April 26, 1945
Location: Berlin city, Germany
Time when the photo was taken: April 1945
Author: Roman Carmen