Boder patrol on horseback
Border patrol on horseback carrying automatic weapons with live ammunition to protect the frontier. Under 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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13801221
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45405851
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2291px x 1899px
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Credit
© CTK Photobank / Mary Evans
Source
Zdenek Havelka - CTK
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