Armed border patrol with dog
Border patrol with German shepard and machine gun with live ammunition protect the frontier. During Communist Czechoslovakia thousands of people escaped to freedom by crossing the border illegaly. The government did everything possible, including shooting and electricuting the would be escapees to death, to prevent the escapes. Czechoslovakia 1959. (CTK Photo / Zdenek Havelka)
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13801000
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45412488
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© CTK Photobank / Mary Evans
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Zdenek Havelka - CTK
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