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“So, how does life under capitalism treat you?” (Russian Communist Party billboard) // Russia // 2010

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HQ 2nd Battalion 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment w/a member of the Dutch Resistance with annotations. Vicinity of Stanggas, Bischofswiesen, May 1945.

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“I’m working on it, Barbara, for fuck’s sake…” (Christmas, circa 1965)

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Detained bandits and gangsters lie on the ground before interrogation in Yekaterinburg, Russia, 1992.

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My grandma, about 1948

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The home of civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Moore after being bombed by the Ku Klux Klan on Christmas Day. Both were killed in the bombing. They were the first civil rights activists to be assassinated during the post-war civil rights movement (Florida, 1951) .

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Home for Christmas, head rammed full of blow. Massachusetts 1985

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Two local farmers working in a field in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, 1992

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"Wouldn't be trying to divert our attention, would he?" (Ed Holland, 1962)

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President Eisenhower arriving at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan 1959

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Arnold Schwarzenegger in ballet class, as he wanted his body building poses and form to become more graceful, and more in line with the ancient Greek athletes and art he admired, with ballet teacher Marianne Claire, 1976

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Christmas 1978- these guys are about to have sooo much fun!

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