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A red flag over Raqqa
GARY OAK presents a photograph of International Freedom Battalion members recreating the famous 1945 photo Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
IFB member hoist the red flag over Raqqa
[Gary Oak]
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TO MARK the victory over Isis in its de facto capital Raqqa, members of the International Freedom Battalion (IFB), an alliance of left-wing groups fighting alongside the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), recreated the famous 1945 photo of the Red Army on the Reichstag.
Speaking under the name the codename Serhildan 21, an IFB member from London, told the Star he saw the two victories as connected.
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