1940 — Young boys swing from a lamp post in the midst of rubble left by a bombing raid on London during the Blitz.
2022 — Children play in front of a building damaged in fighting in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol, on March 23.
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2022 — Children play in front of a building damaged in fighting in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol, on March 23.
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Evacuation trains from war zone
1940 — Millions of people were evacuated when Britain was bombed by nazi during World War II. The mass evacuations were intended to keep British children safe – or safer, theoretically – from German air raids, while their parents stayed behind to work and help out with war efforts.
2022 — Thousands of Ukrainians pour into train station fleeing war-ruined Kharkiv. Russian invasion of Ukraine has driven more than 6 million people out of the country.
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1940 — Millions of people were evacuated when Britain was bombed by nazi during World War II. The mass evacuations were intended to keep British children safe – or safer, theoretically – from German air raids, while their parents stayed behind to work and help out with war efforts.
2022 — Thousands of Ukrainians pour into train station fleeing war-ruined Kharkiv. Russian invasion of Ukraine has driven more than 6 million people out of the country.
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1944 — A woman fleeing the burning buildings of her French town, which German troops had set afire during their retreat on June 10.
2022 — A cyclist rides past flames and smoke rising from a fire following Russian artillery fire in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on March 25.
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2022 — A cyclist rides past flames and smoke rising from a fire following Russian artillery fire in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on March 25.
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1944 — A girl and her pet cat. A war orphan walks through the ruins of a house after the Germans had gone.
2022 — The 12-year-old boy holds a cat standing on the debris of his house destroyed by Russian forces shelling in the outskirts of Chernihiv, April 13.
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2022 — The 12-year-old boy holds a cat standing on the debris of his house destroyed by Russian forces shelling in the outskirts of Chernihiv, April 13.
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1940 — A man plays a piano amid the destruction wrought by Germany's bombs on the Blitz, London.
2022 — A man plays a piano outside a house damaged after a Russian bombing in Velyka Kostromka village, May 19.
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2022 — A man plays a piano outside a house damaged after a Russian bombing in Velyka Kostromka village, May 19.
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1940 — Nazi used symbol "V" during the occupation of France and Poland in the early years of World War II. Translate: “Germany is victorious on all fronts.”
2022 — Today the symbol "V" use by the Russian government as a war propaganda motif and symbol of support for Russia's invasion. Translate: "For Victory", "Our strength is in truth."
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2022 — Today the symbol "V" use by the Russian government as a war propaganda motif and symbol of support for Russia's invasion. Translate: "For Victory", "Our strength is in truth."
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1941 — Burning Ukrainian village on Eastern Front during the Nazi occupation, World War II.
2022 — Local residents look on as smoke rises after shelling Ukrainian village on Eastern Front during full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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2022 — Local residents look on as smoke rises after shelling Ukrainian village on Eastern Front during full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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1941 — In the coastal city of Odessa in Ukraine, children help to build sandbag barricades against the advancing Nazi during Operation Barbarossa.
2022 — Odessa residents fill bags with sand to prepare their frontlines against Russian forces. Sandbags will be used to protect strategic points and barricades on the streets of Odessa in anticipation of a attack on the city.
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2022 — Odessa residents fill bags with sand to prepare their frontlines against Russian forces. Sandbags will be used to protect strategic points and barricades on the streets of Odessa in anticipation of a attack on the city.
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