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My grandma and grandpa circa 1946
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"What can you buy children for the cost of 1 liter of vodka?" USSR 1930
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Japanese researchers attached to Unit 731 engaged in a “Plague Prevention” action in China(November 1940). Unit 731 was a secret research unit that engaged in human experimentation and is believed to have killed between 200 and 300 thousand in its nine years of existence.
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A photo of President Abraham Lincoln conferring with one of his generals near the Antietam battlefield on October 4th, 1862; behind him on the ground is one of the 39 rebel flags captured in that battle.
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Chinese chairman Mao Zedong swimming in the Yangtze river in Wuhan, China, 1966
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A Soviet junior political officer (Politruk) urges Soviet troops forward against German positions (12 July 1942)
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Wife (girlfriend at the time) and I at the Limelight in Atlanta circa 1982
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Gay activists carry a mile-long rainbow banner through New York City to mark the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. June 26, 1994.
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A day after his execution on this day in 1967, Che Guevara's corpse was displayed to the news media in the laundry house of the Vallegrande hospital, Bolivia.
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