Interesting Photos

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During the war, efforts were made to combat boredom and raise morale in underground shelters. At Christmas, parties were held for the children and the shelter walls were decorated with paper chains and decorations while amateur singing nights, discussion groups, and sewing circles were held regularly

Imagine being crammed in there with 100 call centers  rather stand outside

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Finnish soldiers sometimes took fallen, frozen Soviet soldiers and posed them upright as psychological warfare to intimidate Soviet troops. During the Winter War, many of the soldiers were from the south and hadn’t ever experienced harsh winter conditions and ended up freezing to death due to lack of supplies.

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During World War II, the bombing of Tokyo and other cities in Japan caused widespread destruction and hundreds of thousands of deaths. On Monday, August 6, 1945, the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets, killing about 80,000 people. There were six surviving victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, called hibakusha.

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