• madatgascar@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    I like this one here because it’s the unedited version. As I’m sure you know, you can see the soldier in the bottom right has two watches. It shows how the soviets covered up the looting that their troops did when they reached Berlin.

    Another cool historic photo is all those samurai sitting in the sphinx

    I ain’t defending nazis! Just pointing out how the Soviet Union edited this photo to make themselves look better

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      It wasn’t even a watch but the wrist compass, they were issued to junior officers and senior NCO’s in Red Army, and the soldier in photo was senior NCO.

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        My God the copium.

        Regardless of what the object on this man’s wrist is. The Soviet Union edited the image to remove it to cover up the fact that looting was happening.