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Russian president Boris Yeltsin kisses the ribbon of wreath he laid at a Katyn monument in Warsaw, dedicated to Polish officers massacred by Soviet authorities during WW2 (August 1993)(543x807)

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The funeral for OUN-B leader Stepan Bandera in West Germany, who was assassinated by the KGB using cyanide gas (October 1959) (2048x1353)

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Spanish archaeologist Manuel Esteve wearing a Corinthian helmet he found in Jeréz, Spain (1938)

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Moment King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated by Bulgarian nationalist Vlado Chernozemski in France. The assassination was organized by IMRO and Ustaše, with indirect assistance from Italy and Hungary, who had based the exiled perpetrators (October 9, 1934)(1400x1050)

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Soviet people gather around a unexploded German SC-1000 bomb during the Siege of Leningrad, 1943 (1200x1019)

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Photo from 1943 exhumation of mass grave of polish officers killed by NKVD in Katyń Forest in 1940. Photographer unknown. Occupied USSR, 1943.

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A devastated Emil Hácha, the president of Czechoslovakia, returns to Prague from Berlin after signing away Czechoslovak independence to become a German protectorate (March 1939)(700x679)

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Ferenc Szálasi, leader of the Kingdom of Hungary (1944-1945) and Arrow Cross Party during WW2, is garroted for high treason and war crimes in Budapest. He died a slow death (March 12, 1946)(555x384)

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Chinese combat engineers conduct emergency repairs at night using wooden beams for the bombed-out railway bridge no. 185 across the Ch'ongch'on River, Korea, 1951. The bridge had reported been bombed 7000 times during the Korean War.

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French Soldiers Casually Executes Unarmed Algerian Shepherd Near His Tent 1945 (Full video in the comments) (512x358)

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Soviet soldiers sexually harass a German woman in Leipzig, Soviet occupied East Germany (August 1945)(1212x1600)

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Expelled Germans in West Germany protest Yalta and Potsdam border agreements/recognition, as well as the expulsions of Germans. In the background, a map of united Germany, with the Sudetenland, Oder-Neisse, and East Prussia territories included (August 1950)(1280x908)

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