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  Kenyans returning Bibles in crates to the British colonial office in an East German cartoon from 1953, with the caption, “Here, we are giving you your Bibles back, now give us our land back.”

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  Gorbachev and Bush about to share a meal on board the Soviet cruise ship “Maksim Gorkiy” in Marsaxlokk, Malta. Shortly before the declaration of the end of the Cold War. 2 December 1989

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  Ukrainian nationalists and Uncle Sam // Soviet Union // 1950s

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  My grandfather(right) and the other two members of his gang 1947

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  Shell hitting the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral, World War I, September 19, 1914

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  The imperialists may put a man on the moon, but they’ll never but a man in Havana. 1971

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  Obergefreiter of the Luftwaffe field division in Russia, 1942

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  Presenting the losers, 1970s.

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  Remember! Each day of peace is paid for by 20 million Soviet lives! // Soviet Union // 1984

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  A 13-year-old Palestinian boy lies dead on streets of Haifa during the civil war in Mandatory Palestine. Passing by him are British soldiers in the process of withdrawing from the Mandate, April 1948 .

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  Aunt Jemima’s Kitchen Restaurants – 1963 – Disneyland

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  “Stop the militarization of space” soviet poster, 1984.

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  The first Czechoslovakian president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk on his horse in the head of a morale-boosting military parade on the Wenceslas Square, Prague, held as a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the country’s creation, 28th October 1933.

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  Ruth Baucom, a Texas toddler, age one year. This may be the last photo ever taken of her as she died age one year and three months. 1909.

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  The “Arithmetic of an Alternative Plan: 2 + 2 plus the Enthusiasm of the Workers = 5” exhorts the workers of the Soviet Union to realise five years of production in four years’ time (Iakov Guminer, 1931)

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  SS-Hauptsturmführer of the SS-Brigade “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” hands out sontoquin tablets (a drug for the prevention and treatment of malaria) to soldiers. The photo was presumably taken in Greece 1941

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  Jell-O Went Hard In 1952

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  US poster on the metric system from 1917

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  A poster by cartoonist Herluf Bidstrup, 1947.

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  The Ipatiev House, where the Romanovs and their servants were killed in 1928.

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