Note: Spivak is often misidentified as Limanskaya. As can be seen, they look very different. Spivak was nicknamed the Brandenburg ballerina after her graceful moves and infectious personality shone through a Pathe News film at the time.

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Soviet traffic controllers in liberated Germany and Berlin.

First three images: Lydia Spivak, Lyubov Rusanova, Maria Limanskaya, respectively

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Junior Sergeant Lydia Spivak of the Soviet Red Army on traffic control duty in front of the Brandenburg Gate, liberated Berlin, Germany, May 1945.

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