Border patrol with boat
Border patrolmen protect the frontier with machine guns with live ammunition and, if necesssary, on boats. 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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13801007
Media ID
45412521
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2599px x 2697px
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Credit
© CTK Photobank / Mary Evans
Source
Zdenek Havelka - CTK
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