ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 24 hours agoWhat's your favourite historical photo and why?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1129arrow-down17
arrow-up1122arrow-down1imageWhat's your favourite historical photo and why?lemmy.mlordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 24 hours agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·4 hours agoIt 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.
minus-squareSaapas@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-216 minutes agoIirc that’s an explanation made up later. I don’t see why it mattered enough to try to edit out though, should’ve just went with “so what”
minus-squareSippyCup@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·31 minutes agoMy 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.
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-220 minutes agoYour brain on anticommunism: “there was no looting involved but they hidden the looting anyways”.
minus-squareSippyCup@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·18 minutes agoThere’s communism and there’s being a tankie. Don’t be a tankie.
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.
Iirc that’s an explanation made up later. I don’t see why it mattered enough to try to edit out though, should’ve just went with “so what”
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.
Your brain on anticommunism: “there was no looting involved but they hidden the looting anyways”.
There’s communism and there’s being a tankie.
Don’t be a tankie.