Presumably you know that photo was restaged for the photographer?
And the Allies agreed at Yalta to hold back and let the Soviets get to Berlin first. We even withdrew from parts of German we had conquered and let the Soviets occupy them.
Patton was already in Czechoslovakia when the war ended.
Other interesting fact is - Russians lost more live while assaulting Berlin then Americans thru out the whole war (including Pacific) around 300 000 due to the Stalins wish to have a "Victory Day" May 8-9 on the same date as Labor Day May 1 which was some like Christmas but in soviet ideology.


















































