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24 Mar 2022 02:54

A wrecked Soviet column, a result of a Finnish Motti. This battle receiving the name “Rykmenttimotti” (Regiment's motti)  Pitkyarantsky / Pitkärannan District, Karelia, 1 February 1940.

This motti provided the finns with spoils of war like 30 anti-tank guns, 32 field cannons and 20 tanks, among others. 

Motti is Finnish military slang for a totally encircled enemy unit. Literally meaning the formation of an isolated block or "motti", but in effect meaning an entrapment or envelopment.

Can be referred to as a cubic meter of firewood, a relatively small area in which an encircled enemy could be "cut down" like trees. A motti in military tactics therefore means the formation of "bite sized" enemy units which are easier to contain and deal with.

A perfect tactic against the invading soviets as they were forced to stay along roads, due to the thick forest and numerous lakes. Leaving them a vulnerable target for the finns.

Photographer unknown, was provided by Sa-kuva.

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19 Feb 2022 19:38

🇺🇸 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.

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16 Jan 2022 19:31

Grand Central Terminal, NYC, 1929. The sun no longer travels through the windows like this due to the surrounding tall buildings.

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02 Jan 2022 10:14

hree members of (No2) Special Air Service (S.A.S) that were parachuted into
the area in early April to support the partisans with heavy weapons. They are seen going out on an operation in the Castino area, Northern Italy 1945.

Photograph taken by CJ Dawson.

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21 Nov 2021 22:53

North Shore Line train in 1931 crossing Linden Avenue with the Wig-Wag working.

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18 Nov 2021 01:48

Neil Armstrong and family before the Apollo 11 mission, 1969 @facethenation

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06 Oct 2021 18:32

Augustus Straße um 1900, Dresden.

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12 Sep 2021 02:12

Photo by @henryleutwyler / The helmet of FDNY firefighter Joe Hunter was recovered from the wreckage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the twin towers. The Long Island resident earned a business degree from Hofstra University, but he’d known since childhood that firefighting was what he really wanted to do. A television news video from the morning of 9/11 shows Hunter and other FDNY Squad 288 members, sober-faced and laden with gear, heading to the World Trade Center’s south tower to join the evacuation effort. When the tower collapsed, Hunter and his squad mates perished. Hunter’s helmet was found in the wreckage several months later. This image is courtesy of Bridget Hunter and family 125.

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13 Aug 2021 21:31

First World War German Field Marshal, August von Mackensen, photographed in c. 1915. He was one of Germany’s most prominent and competent military leaders and remained a committed monarchist until his death in November 1945 at the age of 95. His life spanned the Kingdom of Prussia, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, The Third Reich, and the post-war Allied occupation of Germany.

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21 Mar 2021 18:03

Angelina Jolie - Age 21 (1996)

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04 Feb 2021 22:43

A rehomed child from Poland, Kostja Pablowitsch Harelek is pictured being inspected by SS chief Heinrich Himmler.

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15 Nov 2017 16:13

а man rides a bus in Durban, meant for white passengers only, in resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies 1986

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13 Nov 2017 00:50

A street barber in Cairo. Egypt, 1936.

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10 Nov 2017 10:21

Al Fatah fighters in training near Amman, Jordan, 1969.

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09 Nov 2017 14:03

Nicole Kidman in the 80’s. 😁

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21 Feb 2022 22:24

Kyiv subway now.
Everybody’s reading news.

Today, the President of Russia recognized the independence of the territories of Ukraine occupied by Russia. And at the same time, the deputies of the Security Council of the Russian Federation confirmed the entry of Russian troops into the territory of Donbass.

that’s why people are so addicted to news.

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15 Feb 2022 10:49

An abandoned Japanese baby is adopted by front line medical unit of the 27th Div. The baby was found with a scalp wound, in the arms of its dead mother, by a tank crew during the fighting below Mt. Tapotchau. Saipan, July 1944.

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07 Jan 2022 19:12

Istanbul National Geographic October 1973

📸 Winfield Parks

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05 Dec 2021 00:16

125 year old snowball fight. Lyon France 1896.

Colorized and speed adjusted.

Originally shot by Lumiere Brothers.

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18 Nov 2021 19:55

Man from Maramureş, one hundred years ago. He is part of a hard working community of Romanian farmers from village of Oncesti, on River Iza. All over Maramures, from the past to this day, one can see extraordinary carved entry gates on timber homes. People in Maramures are to this day happily clinging to their old traditions and folk dress more than anywhere else on the teritory of today's Romania.

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13 Nov 2021 20:41

A trio of Canadian tank crew members socialize atop their M4 Sherman tank amidst some downtime during the Battle of Normandy in June 1944. South of Vaucelles near Caen.

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15 Sep 2021 02:36

Ctesiphon Arch, or Taq Kosra, is largest arch in world built of bricks without use of columns or reinforcement. This archaeological site is located in Baghdad. It was built in the sixth century AD, and is considered one of the greatest architectural wonders throughout history.

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17 Aug 2021 10:49

A delivery man with bags filled with baguettes on a snowy street in Quebec, 1977.

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17 May 2021 21:47

Sir Hiram Maxim testing his invention, the machine gun. (1897)

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18 Feb 2021 10:44

New York City 1960s East 156th Street Vintage

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18 Jan 2021 18:57

Early 1970s drag racer Larry Bowers & trophy girl Barbara Roufs

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15 Nov 2017 14:45

🏒 Upon scoring, Bobby Orr was accidentally tripped by Blues defenceman Noel Picard, creating Orr's famous flying goal pose

@facethenation

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10 Nov 2017 23:16

Making the flame of Liberty, 1876

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09 Nov 2017 16:59

View of Midtown Manhattan, 1939 by Alfred Eisenstaedt

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08 Nov 2017 08:01

Miss Idaho, bizarre potato photoshoot, 1935.