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Patrick Chappatte editorial cartoon on the growing surveillance state, 2020

Posted 3 days ago
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"No German customers wanted here until Hitler returns Czechoslovakia!" - a poster placed in the window of a Somerville restaurant by its Czech owner. USA, March 18, 1939.

Posted 4 days ago
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Grigory Berman finds the bodies of his wife and children, killed by Nazis from Einsatzgruppe D. Crimea, January 1942.

Posted 4 days ago
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Love is love

Posted 4 days ago
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No one wants to remember the horrors of war. Poland, Warsaw, 1946.

Posted 4 days ago
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A traffic jam at the Brandenburg Gate between East and West Berlin on the first Saturday after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 11, 1989.

Posted 4 days ago
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2 men look with bright smiles at a sleeping baby, New York, 1940.

Posted 5 days ago
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"I'm going to finish you off soon". Pornographic Japanese propaganda poster from Russo - Japanese war, 1904/1905. NSFW!

Posted 5 days ago
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U.S. Marines in Hue during the Tet Offensive, 1968

Posted 5 days ago
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I’m sorry I’m not a thirst trap, but this sub needs more actual old school cool. And there’s nothing cooler than my tracksuit. I think about 1983 or so.

Posted 5 days ago
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A Palestinian child flashes peace signs at an Israeli-manned bulldozer demolishing a house in Jenin's Old City during an operation by the Israeli army in the northern West Bank town on 25 October 2002.

Posted 5 days ago
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My mother (left) and her best friend, Dolores (right) c. 1953

Posted 5 days ago