(JTA) — The recently-discovered original copy of an iconic World War II photo which was doctored in the Soviet Union under Jozef Stalin was unveiled Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.

A reproduction of the original negative of a photo documenting the raising of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag — the German parliament in Berlin — was unveiled on Wednesday at the museum during a press conference, according to a report on the Chabad-affiliated Israeli news site www.col.org.il.

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Taken in May 1945 by the Jewish photographer Yevgeny Khaldei, the photo was altered by the Soviet propaganda machine whose officers added smoke in the background to illustrate the intensity of the fighting. Additionally, a wristwatch was removed from one arm of the soldier seen raising the flag. He was wearing two presumably-looted watches.

The original negative was purchased several weeks ago for an undisclosed anount by a collector from Khaldei’s daughter and donated to Russia’s Union of Jewish Communities, which gave it to the museum, the website reported Thursday – the 68th anniversary of Berlin’s occupation by the Red Army.

On Wednesday, the anniversary of the end of World War II, Berlin’s Martin Gropius Bau museum opened an exhibition featuring photos by Khaldei, who is considered one of the most important photojournalist of the Soviet era.