Mounted border patrol
Border patrol carrying automatic weapons with live ammunition use horses to monitor vast border area. Thousands of Czechoslovak citizens fled their country to freedom after 1948. Communist government ordered the Border Patrol to apprehend or shoot anybody who tried to cross the frontier illegaly. Czechoslovakia 1960. (CTK Photo / Zdenek havelka)
Picture No
13802613
Media ID
45427063
Size
2625px x 2088px
(463KB)
Credit
© CTK Photobank / Mary Evans
Source
Zdenek Havelka - CTK
