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1941 — Firefighters putting out a blaze in London after an air raid during The Blitz. The bombing campaigns of World War II put a massive strain on firefighters. For British fire crews, the most intense period came during the Blitz of 1940 and the most intense bombing in London.
2022 — Ukrainian firefighters work in an apartment building after russian attack. On March 15, artillery strikes hit the Svyatoshynskyi district of western Kyiv, adjacent to the suburb of Irpin, which has seen some of the worst battles of the war.
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September 17, 1944 — A police officer examines the remains of a V2 rocket that hit London. More than 1500 Nazi V2s were fired at United Kingdom during World War II.
February 25, 2022 — A Ukrainian army soldier inspects fragments of a downed aircraft in Kyiv. Russia fired more than 2000 missiles at Ukraine during four-month russian invasion.
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February 23, 1945 — during some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, the Battle of Iwo Jima, six Marines planted the U.S. flag 🇺🇸 at the summit of Mount Suribachi. Iwo Jima, a tiny volcanic island located in the Pacific about 700 miles southeast of Japan, was to be a base for fighter aircraft and an emergency-landing site for bombers. The battle for control of Iwo Jima lasted 36 days.
April 3, 2022 — Ukrainian soldier celebrate at a checkpoint in the outskirts of capital of Ukraine, Kyiv 🇺🇦. The russian government did not expect heavy resistance from the Ukrainian population. After nearly 40 days of fierce hostilities, the russian occupiers were defeated near Kyiv. The fight for the capital was intense, leaving suburbs destroyed.
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1941 — A 1st SS Panzer Division advances on Ukraine city of Mariupol following massive bombardment in which civilians massacred during World War II.
2022 — Russian army doing exactly same thing today. Russian military vehicles move on a highway near Mariupol. You have seen “Z” on the tanks and armored vehicles that are attacking Ukrainian towns
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1940 — London, United Kingdom — People sheltering on the platform of Elephant and Castle Underground station during an air raid World War II.
2022 — Kharkiv, Ukraine — Hundreds of people flocked to the underground station to seek shelter from Russia’s full-scale invasion. Thousands of Kharkiv residents spent last 3 months in the underground.
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👮 A West Berlin police officer stands in front of the concrete wall dividing East and West Berlin at Bernauer Strasse as East Berlin workers add blocks to increase the height of the East German barrier October 7, 1961 @facethenation
❓Why was the Berlin Wall built?
After the Second World War, the Allied forces (France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union) occupied Germany and its capital, Berlin 🇩🇪.
When the Soviet Union imposed the Berlin Blockade in 1948, major tensions between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union came to light. Fear of the Communist regime led increasing numbers of East Germans to emigrate 🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♂️ to West Germany.
The Soviet Union decided to build a physical barrier between East and West Berlin. Work began in the early hours of August 13, 1961.
The Berlin Wall became the symbol of the Cold War and a tangible manifestation of the world’s separation into two distinct ideological blocs.
🇮🇷 Tabriz defenders in the days before the Iranian city fall @facethenation
⚠️ Russians invaded Iran in 1911
On November 29, the Russian government presented the Persian government with an ultimatum 👊. Most important demand was to fire the newly employed American lawyer Morgan Shuster. Upon the Persian parliament's refusal to fire Shuster, the shah dissolved the Majlis and agreed to the Russian ultimatum.
The ultimatum nevertheless created unrest 😡 in Tabriz. On December 21, fedayeen attacked the Russian troops, inflicting severe casualties.
In response, a brigade of the Russian Imperial Army was dispatched to Tabriz under General Voropanov. After about three days, the defense of the city's residents broke. The Russians shelled Tabriz with artillery 💣💥 and entered the city on December 31.
The Russians executed the fedayeen, their families and many civilians of Tabriz as well. The total number of executions is estimated to have been about 1200.
The Russian forces remained in the city until February, 1918
🇺🇸 American President Bill Clinton, 🇷🇺 Russian President Boris Yeltsin, 🇺🇦 Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma sign the Budapest Memorandum on December 5, 1994 @facethenation
❓ Well, so what does it mean?
At the end of the Cold War, 💪 the third largest nuclear power on earth was not Britain, France or China. It was Ukraine. Only Russia and the US had more weapons.
Ukraine demanded that, in exchange for nuclear disarmament, it would need ironclad security guarantees. That was the heart of the agreement signed in Budapest in 1994 by Russia, Ukraine and the US.
Budapest Memorandum promised that none of the nations would use force or threats against Ukraine and all would respect its sovereignty and existing borders 🙏🕊.
In May 1996, Ukraine saw the last of its nuclear arms transported to Russia.
🤯 After Russian troops invaded Crimea in early 2014 and stepped up a proxy war in eastern Ukraine, Russian government dismissed the Budapest accord as null and void.
🤝 Marshal of France Philippe Petain shaking hands with Adolf Hitler, in occupied France on October 24, 1940 @facethenation
❓ Why do people say that the French always surrender?
🇫🇷 France had one of the most powerful 💪 armies in the world in 1940. They boasted more than 1 million soldiers in their ranks, including World War I veterans and experienced generals.
But the troops did not have leadership worthy of them. 🥴 French politicians were bogged down in appeasement wishful thinking.
⚡️ In just over 6 weeks (May 10 - June 25, 1940), German armed captured Paris, and forced the surrender of the French government. The glory of France has been ground underfoot by German armies.
🛰🧑🚀 Astronaut Dale Gardner 💪 retrieves Westar-6 Satellite in November, 1984 @facethenation
During NASA's Space Shuttle program STS-51A mission Dale Gardner flew untethered 😱 to capture the errant Westar-6 communications satellite and steer it back into the orbiter for return to Earth.
This mission marked the first retrieval of satellites from space for return to their owners, avoiding a complete loss of insured property. The Westar-6 was refurbished and later re-launched, proving the value of this new ability 👍
🇺🇸 American trainer trains 🇨🇳 Chinese soldiers, July 4, 1942 @facethenation
China was the first country to enter what would become WWII. On July 7, 1937, a clash between Chinese and Japanese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge, just outside Beijing, led to all-out war 💥.
Some 14 million Chinese died and up to 100 million became refugees during the eight years of conflict with Japan from 1937 to 1945.
China was the ally of the United States and the British empire from just after Pearl Harbor in 1941, to the Japanese surrender in 1945.
Georges Méliès at his toy shop at the Montparnasse station in Paris, 1929 @facethenation
Georges Melies, early French experimenter with motion pictures, the first to film fictional narratives. 🙌 Melies made over 500 films, acting, financing, directing, photographing, and designing the stage and costume for each one of them.
🎥🚀🌝 His 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon is his most famous work, and is considered the first science fiction movie and one of the most influential films of cinema history.
The brutal realities of the Word War I of 1914 made the public lose interest in his fantasy films. Georges Melies' film company was forced into bankruptcy 😞. After being driven out of business Melies became a toy salesman at the Montparnasse station.
🔥👨🚒 Fire at the well number 37 of Tengiz field. Huge fire lasted 398 days - from June 23, 1985 to July 27, 1986 @facethenation
Tengiz field is an oil and gas field located in northwestern Kazakhstan 🇰🇿, first discovered in 1979.
In case of liquidation of the accident was not without casualties. Have tried a variety of ways to extinguish the flames - from the air, from the ground. Offered to throw off the sky or drag on the ground to the mouth of the burning well as cover, multi-ton steel nashlёpku. As a result, a year later the well number 37 managed to drown out using directional explosion inside.
🎄 The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is the “worldwide symbol of New Year“ @facethenation
Rockefeller Center has been celebrating the holidays since 1931 — workers set up a little tree in the middle of the muddy construction site while Center was being built.
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May 2022 be the best year of your life! Happy New Year! 🎉
The Islamic call to prayer being recited. Picture taken during the First Balkan War (1912-1913), Barata region of Bulgaria @facethenation
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1943 — View of the destroyed Kharkiv. Kharkiv was captured four times and on August 23, 1943 the city was finally liberated from Nazi occupation. In four of the battles for Kharkiv the Soviet Union and Germany lost more people than at any other time in the history of World War II, including Stalingrad and Berlin.
2022 — View shows buildings damaged by relentless shelling during russian invasion in Ukraine. Many streets have been turned into a mush of steel and concrete. Although Ukraine pushed russian forces back from Kharkiv in a successful counterattack, russian troops are holding on in the north and are still close enough to continue shelling the outskirts of the country’s second-largest city.
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1944 — A building in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱 is hit with a giant German Nazi mortar shell during World War II. The skyscraper that became the symbol of the Warsaw Uprising.
2022 — An apartment building explodes after being hit by a shell from a russian army tank marked with “Z” sign in Mariupol, Ukraine.
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So crazy how history repeats as if we haven't learned over the millions of deaths since World War II
1943 — Destroyed buildings in Ukrainian port city Mariupol after the occupation by Nazi Germany. During World War II, the city was under German military occupation from October 8, 1941 to September 10, 1943. The Nazis killed 10,000 civilians in Mariupol.
2022 — The russian occupiers murdered more than 20,000 Mariupol residents. Russia's assault on Mariupol has damaged or destroyed 100% of buildings in the besieged port city.
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1940 — A boy points out his bedroom to his friends after his home had been wrecked during a random bombing raid in an eastern suburb of London.
2022 — A child walks in front of a damaged school as Russian fascist forces shelled the city of Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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⚡️⚡️⚡️To Ukrainians around the globe:
February 24, 2022. Today ‼️Russia has attacked Ukraine. Army, diplomats, everyone is working. Ukraine fights. Ukraine will defend itself. Ukraine will win.
Share the truth about Putin’s invasion in your countries and call on governments to act immediately.
Pray for Ukraine! 🙏🙏🙏
Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
⛹🏿♂ Michael Jordan's 1988 contest winning dunk @facethenation
The iconic free throw line dunk 🏀 remains one of the greatest in the event’s history.
Michael Jordan in the 1980s was undoubtedly one of the most athletic players to have ever laced up to take to an NBA game 🙌.
🇬🇧 Britain's prime minister Winston Churchill riding a white horse in 1946 @facethenation
Winston Churchill’s life was shaped by horses 🐎. On leaving school at 18, he joined the British cavalry. While at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Churchill had learnt to play polo.
Churchill rode more extensively than any prime minister before or since 😳. He was in the saddle in England, Ireland, France, Spain, India, Pakistan, Canada, USA, Sudan and South Africa.
Churchill played his last game of polo 🏇 at 52, despite having a weak right shoulder (injured in a fall when disembarking from the ship in India).
☝️ “No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle,” he wrote.
🇮🇳 Indian space scientists carrying part of a rocket cone to the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, 1963 @facethenation
💡 From bicycle to a billion dreams
Back then, even rocket parts and payloads were transported by bullock carts and bicycle to the launch pad 🚲👨🔬🚀. It was in these unassuming settings that India staged its first launch.
On November 21, 1963 at 18:25, the world was watching as the rocket streaked away into the gathering dusk. Minutes later, a sodium vapour cloud had emerged in the sky high above, tinted orange by the setting sun 🌅. India had successfully put its first signature on space.
Workers and technicians celebrate China's first nuclear explosion 💥 in 1964 @facethenation
Mao Zedong, Chinese communist leader, officially authorized the atomic bomb project in January 15, 1955: ☝️ “We need the atom bomb. If our nation does not want to be intimidated, we have to have this thing”.
China exploded an atom bomb at 15:00 hours on October 16, 1964, joining the United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France as the only nuclear powers at the time.
🛫 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, with his wife, Empress Farah, leaving Iran for the last time, Mehrabad Airport, Tehran, January 16, 1979 @facethenation
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi left Iran after 37 years in power. He traveled to 🇪🇬 Egypt, 🇲🇦 Morocco, 🇧🇸 Bahamas, 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇺🇸 United States, 🇵🇦 Panama, and back to 🇪🇬 Egypt.
Iran’s 1979 revolution overthrew the last Shah of Iran and paved the way to the formation of an Islamic Republic headed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
👏 Senator Robert "Bobby" Kennedy during a campaign appearance in central Philadelphia, April 2, 1968 @facethenation
The younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, Robert served as his attorney general and was then elected senator from New York.
Robert entered the 1968 presidential race in opposition ✊ to the Johnson administration's Vietnam policy and as a progressive voice on urban and racial issues.
🇮🇹 Italian singer and actor Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70's with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like 🇺🇸 American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. @facethenation
🤯 "Prisencolinensinainciusol" is so nonsensical that Celentano didn't even write down the lyrics, but instead improvised them over a looped beat.
It was a huge hit 🤪
“Gentlemen! We shall declare the republic tomorrow” is what modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk said on the night of October 28, 1923 as he addressed lawmakers and his close brothers-in-arms. One day later, the Turkish Parliament adopted the new regime type and elected Atatürk as the first president. @facethenation
The partition of the Ottoman Empire was a geopolitical event that occurred after WWI and the occupation of Constantinople by British, French and Italian troops in November 1918.
The Turkish War of Independence started on May 15, 1919 during the Greek invasion of Izmir and ended on July 24, 1923 upon the signing of the Lausanne Treaty.
🌖🚀🌎 Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to see an Earthrise above the Moon's surface. They captured this iconic image and sent a message to all the people back on Earth, December 24, 1968 @facethenation
53 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service module. This historic mission launched on December 21 to demonstrate a lunar trajectory and was the first manned launch of the Saturn V rocket.
“What is created by one human mind can be unraveled by another,” said the young linguist Yuri Knorozov and cracked the Maya code (pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica) in the early 1950s, a task that was considered impossible by the leading scholars of the day @facethenation
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