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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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