Border patrol - binoculars - Pioneers

Young Communist youth, members of Pioneer organization (equivalent of Cub Scouts) meet with border patrolman. 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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