Facebook bans iconic photo of troops flying Soviet flag over the Reichstag and suspends Russian artist for her incredible colourised WWII pics - but she says the website is 'deleting history'

Olga Shirona, who colourised the images including the one above of Adolf Hitler dressed in a black suit at a New Year's Eve function, said: 'We live in very absurd times. We should resist all attempts to rewrite history and delete it just because someone doesn't like it.'

Olga Shirnina claims the picture of Yevgeni Khaldei's iconic World War Two photo, 'Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag' (pictured left) was banned from Facebook. The photo was taken during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945 and came to be regarded as one of the most significant images from the war because of the Reichstag's symbolism as the heart of Nazi Germany. The banned portrait of Hermann Goering, (right), shows one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party. After the war Goering was taken to a prisoner of war camp in Luxembourg and became the second-highest ranking official to be later tried at Nuremberg. He was indicted of four charges during a trial that lasted 218 days and sentenced to death by hanging. The night before he was due to be executed, Goering committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule 

Soviet hero Natalya Meklin-Kravtsova (left) was a flight commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment. She had flown an estimated 980 night missions and dropped 147 tons of bombs on enemy-controlled territory by the end of the war. Evgeniya Rudneva (right) was the head navigator of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment, and recieved the posthumous award of Hero of the Soviet Union.  She flew 645 night combat missions before she was shot down on 9 April 1944 

Despite being the most highly decorated unit in the Soviet Air Force during the war, the Night Witches regiment (above) was disbanded just six months after the end of World War Two. The daring female pilots who bombed the Nazis by night were a crucial Soviet asset to winning the war 

A banned image above shows a wreathe-laying ceremony in Warsaw in 1939, several months before Nazi Germany invaded Poland, held by soldiers with a Nazi-embellished sash hung draped around it

A banned photograph shows prominent Nazi Heinrich Himmler, SS leader, front left, meeting with German Ambassador to Poland Hans-Adolf von Moltke in 1939. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a prominent orchestrator of the Holocaust. After the war he tried to flee and go into hiding but was detained at a checkpoint and brought to the British 31st Civilian Interrogation Camp near Luneburg. Himmler admitted his identity and a doctor attempted to conduct a medical exam on him. He refused to open his mouth, before biting into a hidden potassium cyanide pill and collapsing on the floor, dying within 15 minutes 

Another banned picture shows a Russian soldier raising the Soviet flag over Berlin. Colourist Olga Shirmina  said the photos, bought to life and posted to her 23,000 followers, were removed by Facebook for breaching 'Community Standards'

Commander of the Taman Guards Women's Regiment, Yevdokia Bershanskaya, and navigator, Larissa Rozanova, are pictured together above  

Two Nazi soldiers dressed in white are seen outside a dilapidated building in Kharkhiv, Ukraine, in 1943. Olga claims the above photo was removed from Facebook

This colourised image shows Russian soldiers raising a victory banner. 'People - especially from certain countries - even demanded that I 'stop the red propaganda.' I was stunned but then I thought well if people don't like it, I'll just give them more', Olga Shirnina said

A Soviet regiment of dozens of men stand in front of tanks as they receive orders before embarking on a mission

Soviet sniper, Semyon Nomokonov (1900-1973 and pictured left), smokes on a pipe. He initially marked the number of kills on his smoking pipe, and is credited with 367 in total. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Lenin among other medals. Ivan Serikov (right) is seen in colour in his uniform as he stands next to a tank. The photo was colourised by Olga Shirmina, considered to be one of the best in the world 

Marine scouts lay low under the command of junior lieutenant, A. Petrov, in 1942

Regiments are pictured left after storming the Reichstag on 7 May 1945, the day the German army surrendered in Western Europe, ending more than five years of warfare. A smiling Red Army traffic controller (right) stands in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The Red Army was established immediately after the October 1917 Revolution and, beginning in February 1946, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces 

The above photo shows the crew of junior liutenant A. Shilov, as they sit on top of a tank under a near crystal clear blue sky. Shilov was later awarded with orders for military merit in 1943

Crowds of adoring women and children flock onto a station platform as they greet victorious soldiers returning home from the war