• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours 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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      16 minutes ago

      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”

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      31 minutes ago

      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.