Border patrol with horses
Border patrol horses are being washed in lake. 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. Photo: border patrol used horses to catch the perpetrators. Czechoslovakia 1959. (CTK Photo / Zdenek Havelka)
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13801002
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45412497
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2517px x 2631px
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© CTK Photobank / Mary Evans
Source
Zdenek Havelka - CTK
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