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On this day ( 4 Jun 1989 ) Tiananmen Square protests and massacre ended. 1989 (737x1200)
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A German civilian looks at a large poster portrait of Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden in Berlin - June 3, 1945
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The Tiananmen square massacre in which the Chinese government killed somewhere between 1000 to 10000 protesters was 36 years ago today. 1989.
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"This Land Is Your Land" is a song written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie on February 23, 1940. He was an anti-fascist. (1125x1406)
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"The Hooded Man" a prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison with wires attached to his fingers, standing on a box with a covered head. 2003
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My mother wearing her great-great grandmother’s gown circa 1980. We still have it but it’s too fragile to wear now
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'Thou Shalt Not', photography created by A. L. "Whitey" Schafer (1902/3–1951), in 1940 to protest the Hays Code. Legends say this poster was to be found backstage at the paramount and other studios, showing a symbolic violation of every main point of the infamous Hollywood censorship.
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14 year old Osama Bin Laden in Oxford during his visit to Britain, far right. 1971.
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Iraqi painting (1999) showing Saddam Hussein as an ancient Mesopotamian king on a lion hunt.
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