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Staged photograph of the execution of a communist during street fighting during an attempted coup d’etat. Munich, 1919.
An elderly German Volkssturm member holds his outdated Mannlicher rifle that he was issued, October 1944 (1024×1400)
“Teenagers pushing a Ford Model T to get it started, their favorite ride that could carry up to 12 friends, as they head out to a football game,” 1944.
North Korean propaganda painting depicting North Korean and Russian soldiers together holding North Korean and Russian flags. Not sure but probably from the last few years so 2020s
These photographs are practically the last evidence of the ‘quiet’ life in Crimea. Exactly one year later, the Crimean Tatar people will be deported. Crimea, 1943 Magnum Photos/Herbert List Estate Creative Commons

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  • 11 Feb 1911: Melbourne Zoo’s lion, Wallace, rented by a magician performing at the Melbourne Opera House, walked offstage and out of the theatre. He took shelter in the T&G Buildings, 400 metres from the theatre. After two hours he was coaxed into a cage and returned to the zoo.
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  • Go Home Negro Circa 1960
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  • My dad and mom and me. 1957.
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  • Georgi Zhukov, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and other Soviet officers greeting Bernard Montgomery and other British officers at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, 12 Jul 1945
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  • The corpse of Pope Pius IX after being exhumed in 1956
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  • Hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortresses awaiting the scrap heap, 1946.
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  • ‘Death – to the murderous Jewish Bolshevik plague!’ (Ukrainian anti-Semitic/ anti-Soviet poster by unknown artist. Nazi occupied Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, ca. 1941).
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  • Anti-American propaganda, North Korea. 1950s
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  • “God. Nation. Labour. Glory to Russia” Poster of biggest(up to 25000 members at its peak) neo-nazi group from Russia — Russian National Unity. 1990s.
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  • January 20th, 1945, the first 4 units of RAF Gloster Meteor F3 jet fighters arrive in Melsbroek, Belgium to counter a possible threat by German Messerschmitt Me-262. They were all painted white for easy ID, a full squadron would be there by March that year.
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  • “Let Chinese-Soviet Friendship Live Forever!” poster, 1959
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  • A Japanese prisoner of war at Guam, Mariana Islands, covers his face after hearing Hirohito making the announcement of Japan’s unconditional surrender on August 15, 1945
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  • American freedom. Soviet Union, 1960’s
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  • 813th Squadron, England, 1944
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  • Itamar Ben-Gvir, a 19-year-old Kahanist, holds an ornament which he stole from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s car. On live TV, he declared, “We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too.” Weeks later, Rabin was assassinated. Ben-Gvir is now Israel’s Minister of National Security, 1995 .
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  • The disarmament of the Argentines after the defeat in the Falklands War, 1982 .
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  • “Black is beautiful – Communism is not” – Yuri Bezmenov’s 1985 book cover. He was formerly a correspondent for the Soviet Novosti Press Agency, specializing in disinformation for foreign media.
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  • Toronto Maple Leafs player Börje Salming in 1986 with his kitten following an incident in a game on November 26, 1986 where his face was accidentally stepped on and cut by the skate blade of Detroit Red Wing, Gerard Gallant. He required over 200 stitches.
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  • A Japanese leaflet dropped on Allied troops to encourage their surrender, 1942
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  • Brigitte Helm cooling off on the set of Fritz Lang’s ”Metropolis”, 1927.
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